Week 5 Lead Scotland's Thinking Digitally course

I should probably have started a blog on week one of the Thinking Digitally course currently being delivered to CLD practitioners who are members of the North Alliance, but better late than never! Over the next few weeks I'll share some of the links we are looking at as a group.

Online diary tools: Remember the milk offers the opportunity to create a task list of things against dates (seems straightforward) and has the advantage that you can email things to it too. Evernote works well too which like remember the milk will also synch with your smart phone if you have one.  Rednotebook also offer an opensource online diary. Blipfoto offers an online visual photodiary.  Here are a couple of examples of this site in action from frequent blilppers: Mike Russell MSP and Louise Macdonald, OBE, CEO YouthScotland.  It's the most friendly social media site that I’ve ever seen. 

Free sites for creating a blog: The one you are currently reading is obviously Blogger and we mentioned tumblr which is also fairly straightforward.  Check out this search for ‘literacy learning’ for example and you’ll see all blog posts related to that subject which will give you a feel for different tumblr blogs and the styles that people have chosen.  You’ll see that when you click into one that you have the option to ‘follow’ if you want to 'sign up' for future updates from that blogger.  I had created a wordpress blog which actually currently functions more like a website: volunteering round table. It has some basic functions such as contact us form, links to photos hosted in photobucket, one of many photohosting sites and so on. 

Happy thursday