I have never blogged before. It seems easy, but as I sit here I am not sure what to write about. I do have a question that I was going to post in the conference area of my online classroom, but I have decided to put it here instead.
In Richardson's Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms he mentions Social Bookmarking Services. One of the sites he mentions is Diigo. I have briefly looked at it. So, I admit that I am not super familiar with the site. In my classroom I use iKeepBookmarks.com to bookmark sties for my students. They now have access to many of the sites we use in class at home. My question is does iKeepBookmarks.com count as a social bookmarking service?
The sites both seem similar, but I feel like iKeepBookmarks doesn't count as social bookmarking. If it does it is clearly not as sophisticated at Diigo.
Here is the link to the site I was discussing. http://ikeepbookmarks.com/
In comparison here is the link to Diigo. http://www.diigo.com/
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to the site I was discussing. In comparison here is the link to Diigo.
http://www.diigo.com/
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI would actually be interested in some of the sites you are referring to. I actually have no experience with any social bookmarking sites or how I would use them in the classroom. This is something that I will need to look into and investigate further.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI use a bookmarking site for my own personal use (a site called XMarks) however I have never thought to use one in the classroom. How does it benefit you to use that site? I think it's a great idea, I guess I just had never thought of it until reading Richardsons chapter. Thanks!
Heidi
Heidi and Kristy,
ReplyDeleteI use iKeepBookMarks for several reasons. I use it so that I can access the sites that I am in the classroom at home. For example, when I am planning or when I am trying to make a point or use one of them as an example at UMUC.
I use it at school as a back up (just in case our system goes down), or to access my sites in other parts of the school. For example, if I take my students to the computer lab we can all sign on at one time and access the sites.
I also have a link to it on my classroom website, and the children can go to specific sites I allow them to have access to at home. The rest are blocked for later in the year,and I will slowly allow access to them outside of school.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about iKeepBookMarks, but will try it today. By the way,will you edit your post and make it clickable? Then you'll be fulfilling one of the expectations for the blog posts--you need three links.
It's not possible (I don't think) to make links clickable in comments, though.
In my Announcement for this coming week, I'll provide more background on Diigo and invite those of you who want to try it to join a separate group--which is the education version of Diigo. More later.
Dawn
Thank you Dawn. I wasn't sure if it made s difference, and now I can see that it does.
ReplyDeleteBrittany
I have never used iKeepBookMarks before, but it looks as though it could be a really useful site. I always have trouble remembering where I bookmarked something. Was it at home or school? This would allow me to put everything in one spot and know exactly where it is. You say that your students can access it from home. How do they do that? I haven't looked through much of the site but will definitely take a look. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhen I registered I was given an option to allow students. The use a user name and password I give them to access the site. I have a different user name and password to do what I need to do.
ReplyDeleteBrittany,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your ideas. I suppose I do some similar things with saving sites for students to use in the computer lab, however, I have always done that through our network hand- in hand-out folders. Sometimes this can be tedious, so I would definitely be interested in looking into the resources you suggested. Thank you for sharing.