Tag! It's it...

So, Mike shared del.icio.us with us and discussed social bookmarking at our last tech. coach meeting. Wow, it's a lot, as usual. Thankfully, Mike streamlines and picks/chooses what he doles out to us. Social Bookmarking though seemed like a great concept, but I didn't quite grasp it all; for example, I could not figure out nor follow instructions to "invite" a friend. It really was quite simple when I sat a day or so later with it.
Since opening my own account on del.icio.us.com, I have transferred many of my webpage links from my webpages and webpage sources to my network links. This is much easier to manage and access, all at one place and just one time. I also fowarded my data link to a colleague (who has yet to make a del.icio.us account, so I could not just invite her to view). I think this will be a very valuable way to manage web links, as well as share web links. Already, I have spoken with Sabra Gerber as she has inquired about making more links available to students. Were she to have her own account, she could easily enable students to view all vital education link she has on her account, while hiding the non-education links.
Better still, is the tagging of the links. I love attaching a "tag" to a link, such as "Macbeth" so that all links per category can be easily accessed without hunting through pages of information. Tags are wonderful!

Tablet Intro

After spending several days developing a 3minute "Here's Tablets" introduction for the English department, I finally presented yesterday at our 6:50a.m. meeting. The intro went long, about 12 minutes, oops, but it did go very well.
I showed some main features (spinning screen, stylus use, inking on documents, PowerPoints, and the desktop, and I showed OneNote. While presenting I offered use ideas and what my experience has been, along with fielding a question or twelve.
I am very optimistic about the department's eagerness to embrace the tablets as a new and useful tool for teaching. AND I'm beginning to book more one:one meeting; for example, I met with Andrea Olsen yesterday for some one: one work on the tablet.