Edubeacon

Another good ICTEV Conference at Melbourne Grammar School.  I like the location of this conference as well as the easy layout.  It’s always possible to come away with something useful to apply to the classroom.

I presented a workshop session this morning introducing Bloglines and Del.icio.us as research support tools. I got to use these tool as soon as I got home in responding to a request for resources on the controversial Bill Henson photography exhibition.  It took very little time to organise these links:

Del.icio.us – Bill Henson,
Bloglines -ABC, Bill Henson and Bloglines – Google News, Bill Henson  

True to the nature of Web2.0, these are collaborative tools that are create a research communities.  For instance my personal Bloglines account can be a jumping off point for those with interests similar to mine.  Likewise with my Del.icio.us.

I caught John Pearce’s Web 2.0 which was a good run through of a number of useful tools.  These will all be contained in his recently published Technology Toolkit which will be a useful text for the beginner in this field.

Meeting up with fellow study tour participants was also a bonus.