This page has notes that have been used in the programme tutorial meetings with the programme coordinator. If you have more information you would like to add to this (if you have some good ideas about keeping notes, for example) then please edit this page. To be able to edit you need an account - if you try to edit you will be redirected to a page to send a message to the wiki administrator; please use your university email address as you will be recognised; unrecognised requests to edit the wiki will be ignored)

When you start to keep notes on your computer, and add online websites, and then try to have your own work ... it can become difficult to keep track of everything. This can be a further problem if you frequently change computers. One way to get aroungd the problem is to have a website that you can change yourself, and use this as your "starting point". Many people use a blog or a wiki for this.

Examples of blogs:

http://edu.blogs.com/

http://younglearners.wordpress.com/

Setting up a blog: you could use Wordpress http://wordpress.org/

Wikis

The most well-known wiki is wikipedia. This page here that you are reading now is part of a wiki. A wiki can be edited and updated by more than one person, and so this enables easy collaboration.

Other wikis:

http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.RedefiningLiteracyForThe21stCentury

For both blogs and wikis, you can set up an automatic system that tells you if there have been any changes or additions. These are known as RSS feeds. You can create an account with an aggregator which will keep your own RSS feeds.

http://www.bloglines.com/

I didn't have time to tell you about how to do this in the programme tutorial on Wednesday 17th - I will try to rememebr to do this on another day [Ruby]

For online websites you could use delicious:

http://del.icio.us/

Ruby's delicious links for "learning": http://del.icio.us/rubyr/learning

Working out the best way to keep your notes and information in one place is not just something to make life easier - it can become part of your personal development portfolio, which is increasingly important in career development.

http://www.erdee.org.uk/pdp.htm

Many people are now using Facebook as a way of keeping notes, but this tends to be a more "social" organiser.

For a portfolio you could try eduspaces: http://eduspaces.net/index.php. This is used by the MSc in e-learning programme in the University and has been chosen because of the possibilities of keeping some things private and allowing you to upload files. This means that you can have documents on the site that you can reveal to certain people only - very useful for sharing work and collaborating with peers.

You could also try Google Docs