Last week was a fantastic week at school for conversations about new online (web 2) technologies. Nothing massively ground-breaking just a good step in the right direction.
On Monday I met with Pete and Cathy who work in year 5 and we talked about a recent Literacy subject audit that we carried out, in line with the ICT self-review framework here in the UK, that showed we needed to give staff better access to online resources. We have many floating staff, who cover classes in other year groups and also absences. The ability to access all of your bookmarks from any computer is a clear advantage.
So I introduced del.icio.us to them and we are going to populate our school account with the bookmarks we have before we introduce it to the rest of the staff – having two colleagues already in the know is helpful to me, so that I can draw on their experiences and it is not just me preaching my insane ideas.
We have got a clear tagging system that we will introduce:
- Key Stage: Foundation, KS1 etc
- Year Group: Y1, Y2, Y3 etc
- Subject: Maths, literacy etc
- Topics: multiplication, division etc
- Star rating: ***** = 5 star rating ie excellent resource.
- And anything else that is a relevant tag.
I am looking forward to getting the school account up and running, introducing it to staff and populating it with lots of good resources.
Perhaps if other primary schools get their own del.icio.us accounts running then we can begin adding different schools to our network and sharing the online resources we use.
Using del.icio.us in Education – Take a look at this guide to del.icio.us from John Pederson that I have helped contribute to.
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