I just added a new rss feed to my “all in one place” place.
It was one of those, why didn’t I do this sooner, slap head moments.
I got the idea after a brief exchange in a chatroom between Jackie Gerstein and Joyce Valenza on liveclass2.0 on Saturday. The topic of the day was diigo. Jackie mentioned how she often starts her morning in Diigo checking out the links that have been added to the groups she belongs to. Joyce replied that she does that too. I always learn something in the liveclass20 sessions. While I was in the online seminar to learn about Diigo, as usual, the experience sparked a completely random idea that could not have been predicted.
After the exchange, I’m thinking, hey, I have a whole network in delicious (a kind of PLN subgroup that has been neglected), I bet if I checked their additions everyday it would be useful and informative and would make me smarter. I like the idea of all these great educators saving their resources and me taking advantage of that, collaborating.
This is another node in the flow of information from my personal learning network. One that I have not been utilizing enough.
I can stay on top of my network the laborious way, by going to the delicious site, logging in and checking network…
OR
“I bet they have an rss feed for that” and I can add it to my “all in one place” place. So when I go to that place everyday it will be there, updated.
(Your “all in one place” place might not be netvibes it could be google reader, a wiki, a blog, a pageflake or igoogle)How to, with Pics
Go to delicious and click on your network
As you can see there are 102,000 bookmarks saved by educators in my network
Scroll down to the lower portion of the page, and you will see the RSS feed link
After you click on it you will get a url that looks something like this
feed://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/network/lindseybarlow?count=15
I actually edited the field and changed the count=15 to count=35, this will make the feed bring in the latest 35 bookmarks from my network. If it is an active day or I miss a few days, then I will miss some of the bookmarks. This is not a big deal, I mostly just scan through the titles and investigate those that look the most interesting. Often a bookmark will appear more than once as the educators in my network have similar interests they tend to bookmark similar sites, especially ones that are shared via twitter. As you can see in the screenshot from the top, netvibes (my all in one place place) conveniently shows who bookmarked the site and its title. Scanning is a snap with this set up and doesn’t add much time to my daily check on what is happening.
Extra Credit
If you don’t have much of a network
If you don’t have much of a network in delicious, don’t worry. There is a shortcut. You can still take advantage of this idea, by tapping into the stream of someone who does have a good network. Replace the lindseybarlow in the above feed url with the delicious name of anyone with an account and you will have created a feed to anyone’s network.
FYI: I now run small (2-4 people) classes and individual online tech sessions
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