My delicious user name is maryellen1262.
I think social bookmarking and tagging will be useful and one that I plan on implementing. I like the idea that you can label a website with more than one tag. Many times I have found a lesson etc. that could fall under more than one category. It is important to think about the tags you are assigning. If it's something too obscure, it may make sense to you now, but later on you may have a difficult time remembering where you placed it.
Here is a confession on how backwards I am. When I bother to take note of a website that I like, (regarding teaching) I usually write it on a sticky note and place it in a file (a manila file on a certain objective or unit)in my filing cabinet. I found the Delicious site very easy to use. The problem was I didn't have access to the sites I like to use (remember, they're at work in a filing cabinet) It took some time and research, but I was able to find some sites I have used in the past, plus a few new ones.
How will bookmarking/tagging impact my teaching? I will now have an easy way to file websites and useful tags that will allow me to find them quickly. It will not matter if I am at work, at home, etc. As long as I have access to the internet, the information will be available to me. In addition to my own files, I will now have access to the files of others on the same topic.
Whew! Thing 8, finally made it! I had to post this fine vacation photo of myself at Mount Rushmore to express my sense of accomplishment and relieve that I've finally made it to the end!
Don't be ashamed of your sticky note system! Before I discovered Delicious, I used to save links to important websites in Word documents and email them to myself! The greatest thing about Delicious for me was having a way to have access to the same set of bookmarks from any computer--no more frustration over not being able to find a site on my home computer that I had bookmarked at work!
ReplyDeleteTagging is another great feature of social bookmarking sites, and I agree that it's helpful to be able to categorize links in multiple ways instead of sticking in them to one file and one file only!
Hooray! You made it! I hope you had as big of a smile on your face when you finished 8 Things as you do in your vacation picture! Great work! Thing 8 complete!