The newest thing I have learned is social bookmarking. I was introduced to this concept years ago in an undergrad course I had taken but never really paid much attention to it unfortunately. In my online class we were shown how to utilize the website Diigo. I can not express how wonderful and easy this site it to use. I have not only used it in my personal life but an using it for my own education. I plan to transition into using this in my classroom with my students.
What does social bookmarking do? The site allows you to bookmark any website of your choice. Then you can organize all of your sites but labeling them with key words. For example I am currently planning my wedding. I have several different sites tagged relating to cakes, bridesmaid dresses, flower, etc. This site them allows me to give a brief description about the site. I can quickly read my description and remember why I tagged the page.
For school purposes this can be an amazing tool. It allows you to highlight and add sticky notes on the site. Such a wonderful tool, rather then adding the site to my favorites list and then going back even a couple hours later and having to reread the entire page to find the useful information, I can now find it quickly by looking for my highlights. I can also organize articles relating to specific topics like spelling, math, etc.
How to use this in the classroom...well I am an early childhood teacher so one of my concerns is making sure that my students are looking at appropriate things online. I can create an account on Diigo for my students to all have access. If you had older students who could handle each having a Diigo account then you can just create a group for the students to all join so the can share sites with one another. With my younger students who are studying a specific topic. I would go and tag sites that are relevant and appropriate for the topic we are discussing. Each student would then go and explore the sites I have found and highlight important ideas. They can also had sticky notes with questions or other interesting facts they know about the topic. As the teacher I can monitor what students are highlighting and see what they are discussing with each other. I can base my instruction around this information.
Links to help...
http://www.onestopenglish.com/support/tech-tools-for-teachers/social-bookmarking/
http://morethanatech.com/2013/01/17/social-bookmarking/
http://community.educationworld.com/content/3-must-see-social-bookmarking-sites-educators
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