SOCIAL bookmarking
This week in my teaching with technology class, we had the opportunity to be introduced to social bookmarking and to learn about the benefits that this entails. The site which we were introduced to was http://del.icio.us/ we were then given the opportunity to play around with the site and discover some of the cool aspects of this technology. Some of the neat dimensions of social bookmarking that can be used for in a classroom is the ability to organize lesson plans and to easily keep track of different sites and a bonus to this is the fact that you have the ability to access this on any computer at any time. Unlike the old bookmarks, which only save the sites you want to that ONE computer. Social bookmarking is a great tool for teachers, because of the fact that they can access important websites no matter where they are, if they are in their normal classroom, if they are in a co-workers classroom, at home, at the library. anywhere! This is especially cool, because even now, I use both my laptop as well as my desktop computer and everything on one computer is not on the other computer. This technology would allow for me to bookmark pages that are related to lesson planning. And then you can easily organize these with tags, which you can label any way you like.
The other social bookmarking site that I checked out was ikeepbookmarks.com
This site is not as easy to maneuver as the delicious site. It was much harder to figure out how to tag different sites as well as how to organize them into different bundles. The bundling on delicious is a very quick and easy way for anyone to organize information.
This week in my teaching with technology class, we had the opportunity to be introduced to social bookmarking and to learn about the benefits that this entails. The site which we were introduced to was http://del.icio.us/ we were then given the opportunity to play around with the site and discover some of the cool aspects of this technology. Some of the neat dimensions of social bookmarking that can be used for in a classroom is the ability to organize lesson plans and to easily keep track of different sites and a bonus to this is the fact that you have the ability to access this on any computer at any time. Unlike the old bookmarks, which only save the sites you want to that ONE computer. Social bookmarking is a great tool for teachers, because of the fact that they can access important websites no matter where they are, if they are in their normal classroom, if they are in a co-workers classroom, at home, at the library. anywhere! This is especially cool, because even now, I use both my laptop as well as my desktop computer and everything on one computer is not on the other computer. This technology would allow for me to bookmark pages that are related to lesson planning. And then you can easily organize these with tags, which you can label any way you like.
The other social bookmarking site that I checked out was ikeepbookmarks.com
This site is not as easy to maneuver as the delicious site. It was much harder to figure out how to tag different sites as well as how to organize them into different bundles. The bundling on delicious is a very quick and easy way for anyone to organize information.
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