Okay, well I think someone should have
warned me about Thing 17. As I read the
word “Delicious”, I was so psyched because I thought I was going to use my
newly acquired technology skills to conduct some research on Chef Rachael
Ray. After all, her famous catchphrase,
‘Delish’, is derived from the word Delicious.
I have all of her books and constantly use her recipes. That story sure changed when I started
exploring Delicious and social bookmarking.
There was nothing about Rachael Ray or cooking.
After I got over the initial shock,
I did become interested in learning more about social bookmarking. The most bookmarking that I have ever done
was was use a piece of scrap paper to mark my place in Culinary Mystery novels. Once I read through the discovery exercises,
I realized that social bookmarking was similar to my ‘primitive’ scrap sheet of
paper. The potential for social
bookmarking in the classroom can be advantageous. I can see teachers using this application on
their classroom websites. Teachers can
do some of the legwork for projects and bookmark some trusted, useful websites
that will help students with their projects.
This will enable students to start working, without wasting their time
searching around the internet for websites that might not even be
applicable. It can be especially
beneficial for elementary school students.
Because their understanding of research is limited, they can use the
social bookmarking sites to help them find appropriate websites. Social bookmarking can also help teachers. With social bookmarking, teachers can easily
call up important websites that will help them in class. Sometimes it is difficult remembering all of
the great website addresses, and social bookmarking is a way to organize and
combine favorite sites in one convenient place.
Teachers do not even have to use their own computer. Because their information is stored on the
web, they can assess their personal site from anywhere - not just on one
computer. By tagging certain sites, it
is easy to call up specific groups of websites that are pertinent for
particular topics.
Below are two websites that I found
that sound very useful to education. The
first link is called Thinkfinity. It is
a website dedicated to helping educators enhance their curriculum. It provides lesson planes that are aligned to
state and common cores standards, professional development, technology tools,
and activities. The second link is called
Schooltube. It is similar to Youtube,
but for education. Here, students and
teachers can post videos to show off what they have produced in school. There are educational videos that cover
subject lessons, there are student created projects, news stations, webisodes,
and other fun things. So check them out
when you have a chance.
www.schooltube.com
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