Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Although it’s already been over a month since the first Sandbox series workshop, I’m still glowing on how well it went. We had eleven participants, including a handful of CTL members and another group of Librarians. I admit, I pressured the Librarians to coming; I really wanted them to play with the social bookmarking tools. We talked about regular bookmarking, social bookmarking, and blogging (25ish minutes). The participants then spent the remainder of the time (60ish minutes) playing with the technologies. We also had a good discussion about security issues. According to the evaluations (both right after the workshop and a month later), people seemed pleased with the workshop.

Regular Bookmarking: I told everyone that I had started giving my students access to a bookmarks file that I made with various resources. I tell students they can import the file into either their Firefox bookmarks or IE my favorites.

Social Bookmarking: As a writing instructor, I discussed how these tools both help students keep track of their research, as well as find new resources by filtering through the social links available.

Blogs: We discussed what blogs were (web-logs) and I discussed how I use them in my classes and as a professional journal.

• Sandbox Pageflake with resources: http://www.pageflakes.com/rrodrigo.ashx?page=3230142
• Documents from Sandbox series: http://www.box.net/public/60ri70hojt