Personalized Homepages & other Tools for Professional Development

Pamela Arraras – TESOL 2009 – EV Mini-workshop

http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/personalized-startpages-for-professional-

development/

Agenda Introduction to Informal Professional

Development in the XXI century. Podcasts on ITunes and Zencast. Bookmarking. Organizing & collecting (aggregating) solution:

Personalized Startpages! My Yahoo IGoogle Google Reader Pageflakes

Your Turn!

Informal Professional Development

• Journals & magazines• Workshops• Books, reference books, encyclopedias • Conferences• Traveling• Keeping a journal/log

XX Century

•All the above plus:•Blogs •Podcasts & Videocasts•Webinars•E-zines•E-lists•Online courses•Online… EVERYTHING

XXI Century

Podcasts & Bookmarks

In our PC: I Tunes Podcasts Creative ZenCast Podcasts I Explorer Feeds (IE) Live Bookmarks (Firefox)Everywhere: G & Y Bookmarks Social Bookmarking Sites

ITunes - Zencast

Bookmarking

Bookmarking

PC Online Social

Personal Bookmarking

Online

Social Bookmarking

Audio

Video

Text

RSS Feeds

Apps &

Widgets

Personalized

Startpage

s

How do we put it all

together?

Types of Startpages

Connected to an e-mail account:My YahooI Google

Startpages services:Pageflakes

Similar services:NetvibesProtopages

Keyword: ESL

Keyword: English

Less is more

Using Google Reader

Google Reader

Using Atom/RSS Data Ticker

Adding information to your startpage

Pageflakes for Teachers

Pageflakes Pagecasts

Your Turn!http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/

personalized-startpages-for-professional-development

Browse through some podcasts from ITunes and Zencast @

http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/podcasts-for-cpd/

Please feel free to:

-Add comments on the website anytime; leave questions for me or others.

-Come back to the website; it will be there for your reference in case you want to try other things.

Sharing time!

Thank you for coming!

PamelaArraras@gmail.comwww.PamelaArraras.com.ar