This is a very cool tool, discovered via my buddy Deborah Finn.
H2O playlist is basically a way to share lists of content about a specific topic. It’s a great way to create syllabi and other teaching resources that others can share. I can think of a number of ways this would be useful. In some ways, why not just create your syllabus on H2O playlist, and use that as a way to share it with your students? Once lots of things start to get characterized (I was amazed to learn that, for example, the Tao Te Ching was already on quite a number of playlists.)
And, the ability to make RSS feeds out of playlists, new playlists, etc. is fascinating. And, like wikipedia, the more people that use it, the more useful it is for everyone – so I beg to differ with Deborah – use it! (I’m creating a playlist now on the progressive religious movement.)
The one odd thing – just about all of the playlists that I’ve seen so far either have 5 "bulbs" of influence, or none. So I think the algorithm for figuring out influence needs some tweaking. :-)
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