Thing #17

Tagging and social bookmarking tools can be useful in the classroom. A teacher can keep any websites he or she wants to use in one place, and they can be shared with other teachers as well. Social bookmark has the potential to create a sense of community among educators online and in a person's personal life because book marks can be shared. This activity reminded me a lot of the Google Reader exploration where you can stay up-to-date on all your favorite sites and such. It is basically the same concept since everything stays in one place (just log into your account and its all right there). It does seem to have the advantage of making life a little easier for teachers. From this one page you can take your class so many places on the web and quickly. When you click on the websites they come up in a new tab instead of replacing the page you are on. I really like that all these bookmarked sites can be accessed from anywhere. Teachers need to be able to have resources at there fingertips and this can definitely help. We as educators can take advantage of this tool by using it to keep track of sites that may be useful in our lessons and to find ones that can useful. It can be helpful in doing research because just typing in a few key words can bring you thousands of resources to look through. We can back up our information and find reliable sites. I would probably use this tool more in my career as an educator than in my personal life. Like I said in my last post habits are hard to break and I will most likely continue to go about typing in every website I want to go to into the address bar, instead of going to one place that has links to all of them. This is partly because I do not want to have my email flooded with messages; I have found that signing up for anything online can lead to this problem. Everytime I look at my email, there are so many that I don't even care to look at. They are nonsense emails that just take up space in my inbox. I am simple saying that I am trying to me more careful than I have been in the past about what I create accounts for online to protect my email and myself in general. I now have this Delicious account that I may use in the future when I am a teacher, not so much right now. I think I would prefer Google reader though because it felt like the same thing to me. And Google is just awesome!!! I for one would be lost or just very bored with out it.