Social Bookmarking- in the words of the Guinness guys, "Brilliant"
I know exactly how I am going to use this. I love finding things on the web that relate to content studied in class, and I want my students to do the same. Using delicious (channeling Fergie every time I type "delicious") my students can bookmark websites and articles and tag them using what class content it relates to. I can also do this to provide supplementary resources for my students. There's always going to be cool things online I'll want to show my kiddos, but we won't have time in class and it may not be a fundamental part of the lesson. By putting them on delicious, they still have an opportunity to see what wasn't shown in class. I had a teacher in high school once who would add things to the class web page and throw extra credit questions on exams that came from the resources on line. I could do that using delicious and it would encourage students to continue exploring outside of class time.
Now, there are students who don't have access to the internet at home. There were tons of students w/o internet access when I was in high school, too. But, the offer of extra credit enticed enough students to work around those obstacles: using the public library, the computer lab before and after school, or the computers in the library, and our teacher allowed us to come in during our lunch and use the internet on his computer if we were really desperate.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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I agree with your solution to the fact that all studetns do not have the internet. With the resources through schools, there is always a way to help students access what you want them to access.
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