Monday, 13 January 2014

Curating links and useful information for colleagues

As one possibility for experimenting with gathering together useful links and information in an attractive and easily navigated format, I have created a Pinterest page intended for colleagues in the Family Learning team.
Follow Nancy Turner's board Could these help you as well? ICT tools, and ideas on Pinterest.
 They have a wide range of interests, many of which are art-based so it lends itself to visual images as the jumping-off points for weblinks.  Also the Family Learning team seem much better at communicating amongst ourselves so I  hope that once the word is out I should get some feedback and hopefully other people joining in with pinning things of interest.    My pin about IWB tips (on a padlet) is being re-pinned! By people I don't know, even.

Options for curating & communicating with push tech, and to use or not?
Twitter - Don't think many colleagues use it.
Facebook - if they do it's for personal not work and many wouldn't bother doing both.
VLE - theoretically best but presently RSS feeds do not work for me.

In addition, I have an agreement with my curriculum manager that I will provide a periodic input of new ideas and tech suggestions via our LinkedIn team group.  Since that has not taken off in a big way yet (and could my input change that?) I am going to try Rebelmouse as the central repository, and see if I can persuade a couple of people to "follow" it and give me a bit of feedback as to whether they have been able to make use of any of the material or tools I post about.  I can publish the Rebelmouse page to LinkedIn I believe so I can still meet that task.
I have the chance to try out the idea in some CPD workshops I've just been asked to do.

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