Wednesday, March 2, 2011
delicious
It was interesting to see all of the bookmarks of other people in this class. I felt a little like an intruder, but I guess it's a good idea to keep in mind that anyone can access your bookmarks unless you mark them private. I acquired some good bookmarks from Geri: We Tell Stories and cooltoolsforschools. It helps to look at the number of people who bookmarked a site. If it's a large number, it's a usually a good site. However when I see blogs with postings that are all over 4 years old and then I know it's not worthwhile to save! I think that many of us are using similar tags. I just bundled some of the tags to hopefully keep them more organized. Some of the tags that I used most which aren't related to this class are ell, spanish, and socialjustice. I haven't annotated any of my bookmarks, but I think I will when I share bookmarks with my students because it will save them time. When I teach them about tags, I think I'll use a concept map like a venn diagram to show how sites can be part of more than one tag.
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I like the idea of using the Venn diagram to help visual learners see how to create tags. It's difficult to get the knack of creating tags. I mean, for books it's up to the Library of Congress to create tags. There's no such agency for websites...:)
ReplyDeleteI agree that it still feels odd to take bookmarks from other people and make them your own... like you said, it's a good reminder that this isn't private information. Although, the public access to your account could have some advantages. I could see this being a handy tool for colleagues to be able to share information - especially if they were limited in their collaboration time. Also, I definitely agree, it did seem like the more people who bookmarked a site, the more reliable/useful it was. Sometimes reading the description of a website just isn't enough...
ReplyDeleteI had to giggle a little when I read your post because I feel the same way- taking bookmarks from others feels intrusive, but it is helpful!
ReplyDeleteSara,
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to checking out your bookmarks for some good ELL sites.
I agree that sometimes sites are too old to be of use anymore. It makes me wonder if sometimes people get "tag happy". I know I did...I was going to every cool site I found and saving them with great tags - but eventually realized I wouldn't ever use most of them. So when you go to someone's bookmarks and the sites are old or don't work anymore, that's likely a sign that they haven't been to it in a while. Was it worth tagging in the first place?