WebSlides by Diigo

The idea of providing groups, whether teachers on courses, children in school so that they can easily continue working at home, or just interest groups with a selected list of web sites has been used extensively in a variety of ways I feel sure.

My methodology is to build a very simple blog and just list the sites in it. This has some advantages over using such sites as del.ic.ious for sharing as users don't need to be members, don't need to log on and those that are unsure don't need to do the password 'thing'. All they need is the url of the blog and they have access to chosen sites. Agreed that they can't actually add sites in unless you give them the rights to do so but the blog can be made reasonably secure by setting it so that comments are moderated and 'bots' eliminated.Some blog providers are better than others for educational purposes.

This blog set up for some PGCE students at Leicester University is an example of the sort of thing I mean.

Although Blogger is very easy to set up and use it has the disadvatage that there is a 'next blog' button on the top line which is fraught with opportunities (if you see what I mean).WordPress does not have such a function.

Today, however, I have discovered that Diigo have a really appealing new application for sharing web links with groups. It is called slides and is certainly worth a consideration in these heady Web 2.0 days.