Social bookmarking definitely has many benefits. It is definitely a time saver. You can build a network of people who share the same interest who will search for sites, tag, save, manage, and share web pages. This is a great way to collaborate on finding new sites. If you choose, you can even make it private. It becomes less important to know and remember where information was found and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework created by and shared with peers and colleagues.
I have had a delicious account since last August. I have other teachers in my school as part of my network. While searching for information they need, they sometimes come across something they know I would be interested in and bookmark it for me. This is very helpful for me both personally and professionally.
I haven’t had students use delicious in my classroom yet. Perhaps I will have students use it when they are working on a group project. The students could save the sites they are going to use as references. I could also check for plagiarized content from websites which can sometimes be a problem area. I’m sure there are some details that will have to be worked out first.
Feel free to check out my bookmarks at:
http://delicious.com/darleneodonnell
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You could provide a whole list of pre-approved classroom resources for your students by subject, topic, chapter... and encourage them to find and add the best resources to the list
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of sharing sites with colleagues. It allows less searching for one person if you share resources on topics of the same interest with other colleagues.
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