I thought I had a good understanding of Internet browsers until I completed our homework assignment. I really learned a lot about the many functions of each browser. Truthfully, until now, my use of browsers was as the name suggests, to browse the Internet. I never used the bookmarking features, password managers, or really any of the other features. As I explained before, I am trying to learn to use Google Chrome to the best of my ability, so I learned a lot of valuable information from this activity.
Social Bookmarking was a new concept to me before this lesson. I found the differences between the social bookmarking sites interesting. They all have a strength in very specific areas. I thought of a lot of possible educational benefits of Diigo that could be used in my everyday classroom experience. One possibility would be a teacher having a specific tag for each of the classes they teach. Students could access all of the valuable sites related to the class they were taking. I definitely plan on implementing social bookmarking into my teaching next year.
Hopefully you will be able to dive into Social Bookmarking and the use of 'tagging' the sites for easy retrieval. What types of 'tags' do you think you will use for GT?
ReplyDeleteBethany,
ReplyDeleteTags for each course (or grouped by type of course) is how I tag my bookmarks. I have my programming bookmarks, game design bookmarks, flash bookmarks, etc. It also makes it easy for me to go in to find bookmarks. I do go in occasionally to make sure the bookmarks are still working. I find that sometimes the owners of the sites will revamp them and the bookmarks might not be valid anymore - either because they just moved the page to another place on the site or got rid of it altogether. So you either need to delete them or update them if they still have the page you want to bookmark. It doesn't happen too often, but occasionally.