Tonight I delivered a staff meeting that introduced the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us. It was really well received by all and I began by explaining that the need for such a tool had been highlighted in responses to subject audits which coordinators had carried our for the SEF (Self Evaluation) and wider school improvement planning.
Del.ici.ous was an obvious solution to the need to have a more structured approach to online resources. I also believe that we will benefit from other school’s similar commitment to the use of social bookmarking. So not only do we get a better system for our own online resources that we know and love, but get to see other school’s take on it too.
So far I have got a handful of schools that have begun using del.icio.us as a whole school resource, and I would really appreciate anymore that you know of so that we can benefit from a greater network of resources.
We are priestsic on del.icio.us 🙂
For the session I produced some simple cards that I laminated and trimmed down so that staff can stick them up close to their school computer. One explained the login details and the other was a simple summary of how you can easily add a new bookmark.
The resources are on a computer at school in MS Word format but I will publish them tomorrow so that you can use them in your own staff meetings etc.
I must just thank David Muir for his excellent Simply del.icio.us guide that I directed my staff towards at the end of the session.
I am a trainee teacher and I have been wanting to do something like this at the school I am at. Some teachers seem really resistant towards it though because there are a lot of technophobic teachers there and further implementation of ICT scares them, even though del.icio.us will make it much less scary for them.
Perhaps my first “real” school will be more receptive.
This looks a great idea! I think I will try and start something similar in my new school after Easter. Keep us updated on how it’s going. I’m particularly interested how having one account for the whole school goes. At Secondary level I’m worried it could get ‘too big’, maybe one account per department might work for us. If the departments were set up in the network you could still tag stuff for:English for example.
Hmm, lots to think about – thanks!