Social Bookmarking Rachel Lacy ITSCO
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Share your favorite website
How do you begin research? Now
How do you begin research? Google Yahoo Alta Vista Specialized Searches-journals, ERIC, etc.
Media Literacy Teach Students how to use the internet safely Opportunity to show students how to critically look at social media
Collaboration in the Classroom: Working Together= Working Smarter
“global intellectual economy” - Time's Person of the Year: You by Lev Grossman
Web 2.0 I didn’t know there was a web 1.0…
The Read/Write Web…..
The Interactive Web The Social Web
Web 2.0 Social Software Picture
What does all that mean? Blogs Instant Messaging Internet Forums -Chat eLearning –online classes Massively Multiplayer Online Games Media Sharing Personals Social Annotation Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis
Social Bookmarking watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU
Lingo Social Bookmarking - using a web- based tool to save and share Internet bookmarks Social Annotation - using a web- based tool to annotate on webpages Tagging - the process of assigning keywords for classifying and sorting
Why use social bookmarking in the classroom? Post assignments Store and organize research
Collaborate
Maintain coolness factor with students Allow students to show “true” self in a school setting
Educational Uses Share resources with students, colleagues, and parents (they can even subscribe using RSS)
Educational Uses Class/group sets up an account and everyone contributes (tag for projects)
Educational Uses Track the websites experts find important Teacher can review and comment on resources that are bookmarked by students
Educational Uses Students rate and review each other’s bookmarks to help decide the usefulness of resources
Educational Uses Share links to current news items that relate to classroom discussions Share an account with teachers in your department or grade level
Educational Uses Subscribe to accounts of other teachers who teach your content Diigo- Create assignments where students annotate webpages
What is Social Annotation? Diigo (dee’go) is the big social annotation site. Virtual highlighter and digital sticky notes highlight & comment directly on a webpage Easily extract and compile all your highlights across multiple pages for a given subject. Keep your annotations private, share them with groups you belong to, or make them public for everyone to view. Exchange viewpoints on any specific area of a webpage - great for collaboration or debating an issue.
Twitter Commoncraft video (if time allows) Blog posts of 140 characters or less.
Twitter in the mainstream Rick Sanchez on CNN Local news channels
Twitter Discuss developing news, debates, events, conferences
Twitter Ways to use Twitter in the classroom Track a word Follow a professional More om/home/2008/twitter-for- academia/ om/home/2008/twitter-for- academia/
Sources SMC/69411 Social Bookmarking & Annotation ppt by Lainie McGann Personal photos and screenshots
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