Edudemic

It really does go to show that blogging really can help share ideas and information. I discovered Edudemic, an excellent blog which serves the academic community, thanks to Marianne's blog and pinterest board.  Rather topically one of the most recent posts was on 3 Reasons You Should Start Blogging, which was rather encouraging!  Edudemic seem to have posts on just about anything education related, and while it's really written by teachers for teachers, there is a lot of useful information literacy and Web 2.0 content which can be applied to what we do as well.  Interestingly, Edudemic also has a presence on Pinterest.

Exploring Blogs & Rediscovering Pinterest

Today's new challenge has been to explore other blogs, which I have already begun to do.  I spent some time over the last couple of weeks exploring colleagues' blogs. As well as posting comments, I also posted an article(?) on the BPC Library 2.0 blog, entitled "Have you got a Google+ profile?" to help colleagues who's blogs could not yet be seen by the rest of the group. I have had feedback (via email) that this was helpful for at least one individual.

I was very interested to discover via Marianne's blog that she has begun a Pinterest board for Teaching Information Skills. It was quite inspiring to see these resources displayed in such an attractive and visual way via Pinterest. My sole use of Pinterest previously has been to display research into library furniture and design. However seeing this has inspired me to create my own Online Learning & Development board on Pinterest to capture some of the best Web 2.0 and other online resources I discover: or at least those that are visually appealing!