Social Bookmarking

It's time Brockwood had a place to store all those great links that we find.
I've talked about Social Bookmarking so have a look there if you want some detail.

(I've tagged the post with Social_Bookmarking to make it easy)

I tried creating a Talkbrockwood account but it didn't make sense.

I looked at StumbledOn

But I didn't understand it.

(Some one should try Digg and report back)
I've used Delicious for a while now but it's my personal non-Council account.
Eventually I'll share some link that is of no use to us in our jobs.
(Association of Backyard Metal Casters anyone?)
Or I'll share something which I should 'coz it's offensive/illegal/scary/fattening etc.
(Don't click this link whatever you do)

So I've created a Delicious account for geoff.power@sheffield.gov.uk .
I've exported my personal one and imported it into the work one.
So there is lots of e-learning, education and evaluation stuff already there.

So here it is

Geoff Power's Delicious Home Page

E-Safety, Codes of Conduct And Professionalism

(this image is from the National Education Network)

The next step in the development of our first project was to consult the e-safety guidelines from Becta.
I couldn't find the risk assessment document that's referred to in the Cambridgeshire documents so I consulted the Council's E-safety officer.
(Your organisation should have some one with similar responsibilities)
Over to them.

"I do agree that you cannot rule out children being involved if you are using social media. The involvement of children does open up the whole discussions of how you keep them safe, moderation etc. etc.

There are guidelines for Professionals working with Children and Young People or their Families in Sheffield which is included in our E-safety Protocol for Digital and Interactive Technologies which you may find useful. This can be downloaded from our website at http://www.safeguardingsheffieldchildren.org.uk/ from the E-safety link in SSCB/Service. "

I also ferreted around for other useful stuff to help us decide what we need to do.
Here's that research

The link above leads to Delicious which is another social media or Web 2.0 site.
I classify ('tag') and share websites I find, then I can use the tags to find other sites that other people have tagged.
It's like having one big favourites with endless different folders.
Here's an explanation from The Common Craft people

Blog posts can also be classified ('labelled') to make the blog easier to read.
I've labelled all the project posts 'Project' and you can select just them to read.

(Geoff)