Monika JankowskaPacyna

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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays
A network of Adult Basic Education (ABE)
administrators, educators and supporters who come
together at Tech Tuesday events to Share
information, resources and ideas about new and
promising tools Learn from each other how to
use and integrate new and innovative web-based
technology and tools in their programs Explore
and discuss the benefits and shortcomings of
web-based technology and tools in the ABE
framework Network with individuals and
organizations committed to advancing the ABE
community Collaborate on new initiatives.

• Monika Jankowska-Pacyna
• AlphaPlus Centre

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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays

• Agenda
• About this initiative
• Welcome and introductions
• More about our online Meetup space
• Presentation Delicious ways to integrate
  technology into practice
• Discussion input from participants
• Upcoming meetings dates and topics
• Feedback/suggestions and closing remarks
• www.meetup.com/TechTuesdays

• Monika Jankowska-Pacyna
• AlphaPlus Centre

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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays

• MeetUp space will be used to
• Grow the group membership
• Announce future meetings
• Message board to share information and feedback
• Polls to gather your feedback
• Files to be shared/exchanged online (i.e. this
  presentation,
• handouts, etc)
• www.meetup.com/TechTuesdays

• Monika Jankowska-Pacyna
• AlphaPlus Centre

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Delicious ways to integrate technology into
practice

• Monika Jankowska-Pacyna
• AlphaPlus Centre

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Session objectives

• Quick introduction and movie about social
  bookmarking
• Quick training on setting up and using a
  Delicious account
• Examples of Delicious account users
• Information on additional links, tips and
  resources

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• More than five million users and 150 million
  bookmarked URLs
• Free social bookmarking web service for storing,
  organizing, searching, sharing, and managing
  information about web pages/sites
• Users save links to web pages that they want to
  remember and/or share and organize them using
  tags (labels)
• Bookmarks are usually public, but can be saved
  privately, shared only with specified people or
  groups, shared only inside certain networks, or
  another combination
• Account is always available online and the
  bookmarks can be viewed chronologically, by
  category or tags, or via a search engine
• (Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookm
  arking, http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious)

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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vx66lV7GOcNU
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How does Delicious work?

• Navigation overview
• Registering for your account
• Adding browser buttons
• Bookmarking, tagging and sharing

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Delicious sites to explore
http//delicious.com http//delicious.com/emsblite
racy http//delicious.com/lbsmath http//delicious
.com/lbsliteracy http//delicious.com/alphapluscen
tre http//delicious.com/AlphaplusWebindex
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Other links, tips and resources

• Delicious Handout - http//pdf.alphaplus.ca/emsb/
  handouts/delicious.pdf
• Handout with step-by-step instructions on how to
  set up a Delicious account (might need to be
  updated to reflect recent changes in Delicious).
  
• AlphaPlus Delicious account -
  http//delicious.com/alphapluscentre
• New account to bookmark information and
  resources we find.
• AlphaPlus Web Index - http//webindex.alphaplus.ca
  /
• A collection of over 1000 annotated web-based
  resources on all aspects of Adult Basic Education
  (ABE). This year we hope to transition it into a
  Delicious account.

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Thank you for your participation! www.alphaplus.
ca Email mjankowska-pacyna_at_alphaplus.ca Tel
1-800-788-1120 x 117
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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays

• Potential topics
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Twitter
• Webinars
• Google Apps (email, front page, calendar, etc.)
• Other topics recommended by participants

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Welcome to Tech Tuesdays
Thank you for coming! Stay in touch
via www.meetup.com/TechTuesdays