Social Bookmarks

Once you understand how to use Social Bookmarking and the many ways it can be used in the classroom, it is amazing how I worked without it. Many times I had searched for information on the Internet, found it, saved the link, then amongst my many links, lost it. The categorizing and sharing with other colleagues is fabulous. I especially like the sharing and finding what other web sites people are finding on the same subject.

Del.icio.us was very easy to use and manage. I like the concept of tagging your links. This makes it easy for my students and myself to find the links that were saved under a specific tag.

Furl is just as easy and if I were saving content would work great.  I love the idea of saving a snapshot of the entire page. I know how I have gone back to a site and found out it has disappeared. This way I at least have the content of the page saved.

 

I have my students putting together a website about the Rainforest. They research the location, climate, food, plants and animals, layers, people, language and housing of the Rainforest. I have many different sites that they can go to and it would be great to have them all on my del.ico.us site under Rainforest project. Working with their partner they could also share their websites if new ones are found.  One of the NETS-S that the students would be performing is the Research and Information Fluency. The students are taking the information that they are finding and putting it together to make a presentable and understandable website.

My delicious websites are on the right under "Great Links".