After a brief demonstration of IGoogle, MyYahoo, ITunes, Google Reader , Pageflakes and social bookmarking as sources for informal professional development, participants will create at least one personalized website or homepage for continuous professional development. A handout with resources and applications provided online and in print: Sources of activities for students, gadgets, podcasts, RSS feeds and how to aggregate them, plus online archives will be provided.

1. Personalized Homepages & other
Tools for Professional Development
Pamela Arraras – TESOL 2009 – EV Mini-workshop

2. http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/personalized-
startpages-for-professional-development/

4. Agenda
Introduction to Informal Professional

Development in the XXI century.
Podcasts on ITunes and Zencast.

Bookmarking.

Organizing & collecting (aggregating) solution:

Personalized Startpages!
 My Yahoo
 IGoogle
 Google Reader
 Pageflakes
Your Turn!


5. Informal Professional Development
• Journals & magazines
• Workshops
XX • Books, reference books, encyclopedias
• Conferences
Century • Traveling
• Keeping a journal/log
• All the above plus:
• Blogs
• Podcasts & Videocasts
XXI • Webinars
Century • E-zines
• E-lists
• Online courses
• Online… EVERYTHING

6. Podcasts & Bookmarks
In our PC:
 I Tunes Podcasts
 Creative ZenCast Podcasts
 I Explorer Feeds (IE)
 Live Bookmarks (Firefox)
Everywhere:
 G & Y Bookmarks
 Social Bookmarking Sites

7. ITunes - Zencast

8. Bookmarking
PC Online Social
Bookmarking

9. Personal
Bookmarking
Online

10. Social
Bookmarking

12. How do we
Text
Vide
o
put it all
together?
Audio
Personalize
Apps &
RSS d
Widgets
Feeds Startpages

15. Types of Startpages
Connected to an e-mail account:

 My Yahoo
 I Google
 Startpages services:
 Pageflakes
services:
Similar
 Netvibes
 Protopages

18. Keyword:
ESL

25. Keyword: English

27. Less is more

28. Using Google Reader

29. Google Reader

30. Using Atom/RSS Data Ticker

34. Adding information to your startpage

35. Pageflakes for Teachers

36. Pageflakes Pagecasts

38. http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/
personalized-startpages-for-professional-
development
Browse through some podcasts from ITunes and
Zencast @
http://pamelaarraras.com.ar/tesol2009/podcasts-for-cpd/

39. Please feel free
to:
Sharing
comments on the
-Add
website anytime; leave
questions for me or others.
time!
-Come back to the website;
it will be there for your
reference in case you want
to try other things.

40. Thank you for coming!
PamelaArraras@gmail.com
www.PamelaArraras.com.a
r