What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking?
So this week we are looking at the idea of social bookmarking. At first glance I thought this was a cool idea. I am always wondering if there are better articles out there for a subject than just the ones that you can google first. I think this could be a way to get past the first page of googling and get to some more interesting article. The website that we are using is called Diigo. Basically you get on there set up an account with them and then you can start bookmarking articles that you would like to read later or whatever. The free version that you get has some limitations but is really not that bad. there is also a free for educators version that has less limitations and would really be useful to help students start a research project because the real advantage to a site like Diigo is that you can make groups. You can set up your own group or you can join another group that is already set up. There are all types of groups like for instance there is a group that is all about Apple. So if you are interested in all things Apple than you can join that group and now you have a team of people who are finding interesting articles that you can read and you can then find articles to share in that group as well. I think this could not only be very interesting for just general stuff you are interested in but also for professional development. There is a group called Web 2.0 at school. In this group there are article and blogs all about how to use web 2.0 tools in your classroom. Or the project based learning group. Or better yet you could set a group up for you class to help students share what they have found for a research project that they are doing as a group. Or if there are articles that you want your students to read outside of class you could just link them in there and have the read it on their own time. I think that all of these feature make Diigo a worthwhile tool that could easily be incorporated into any classroom.
So this week we are looking at the idea of social bookmarking. At first glance I thought this was a cool idea. I am always wondering if there are better articles out there for a subject than just the ones that you can google first. I think this could be a way to get past the first page of googling and get to some more interesting article. The website that we are using is called Diigo. Basically you get on there set up an account with them and then you can start bookmarking articles that you would like to read later or whatever. The free version that you get has some limitations but is really not that bad. there is also a free for educators version that has less limitations and would really be useful to help students start a research project because the real advantage to a site like Diigo is that you can make groups. You can set up your own group or you can join another group that is already set up. There are all types of groups like for instance there is a group that is all about Apple. So if you are interested in all things Apple than you can join that group and now you have a team of people who are finding interesting articles that you can read and you can then find articles to share in that group as well. I think this could not only be very interesting for just general stuff you are interested in but also for professional development. There is a group called Web 2.0 at school. In this group there are article and blogs all about how to use web 2.0 tools in your classroom. Or the project based learning group. Or better yet you could set a group up for you class to help students share what they have found for a research project that they are doing as a group. Or if there are articles that you want your students to read outside of class you could just link them in there and have the read it on their own time. I think that all of these feature make Diigo a worthwhile tool that could easily be incorporated into any classroom.
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