RSS and social tagging: On the desktop and in the classroom

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Laura E. Pence, LPence@hartford.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford, CT 06117 and Harry E. Pence, pencehe@oneonta.edu, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, State University of New York, Oneonta, NY 13820.
The combination of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and social tagging (using a social bookmarking web service, like del.icio.us, Connotea, or CiteULike) provides a powerful tool for personal information management and also for helping students to become more aware of recent developments in Chemistry. This paper will describe how to help students set up an RSS aggregator, establish some RSS feeds, and also to install a social bookmarking web service on their computers. It will then describe how successful this combination can be at encouraging students to improve their information management skills, share useful web sites with each other, and develop greater chemical awareness by reading about chemistry on the web.
 

Using Social Networking Tools to Teach Chemistry
8:30 AM-11:55 AM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N230B, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007