Following on from the earlier posting on Digg there is now a “News for education 2.0” (!) site working on the same basis. Take a look at EdBloggerNews.
I spotted it on weblogg-ed in a posting about the “Links posted for you” feature of del.icio.us – del.icio.us goodness which I wasn’t aware of. Will I use it? Probably not as I’m not a del.icio.us user but perhaps useful for a collaborative group using del.icio.us for research or a group project… may be.
Some more ‘social software’.. seems to to be aimed at students making notes in lectures etc which are then shared with rest of the class… EdTech post reckons it’s aimed at PDAs / phones which would make sense. It is very easy to use. See my example at http://stu.dicio.us/madrattling/
More on the stu.dicio.us blog
DOPA has been cropping up in my RSS feeds for a while now and I’ve not really taken much notice. Ben Werdmuller at Elgg has just provided this useful link to the story explaining all… In brief: with tha aim of protecting children online the US is introducing legislation (DOPA) banning schools and public libraries from giving students access to social networking sites such as MySpace… As the article points out, forcing kids to use social networking sites on the sly isn’t really the answer.
Looking to spot the next MySpace? Consider Digg.com, a “social news” site caught up just now in a scrappy battle with AOL. “Social news,” you ask?
[A test using the Digg ‘Blog it’ link. Read more about digg – ML]
