Social Bookmarking
I explored Delicious and opened an account. The help section and tutorials were helpful.
Delicious actually added a menu item to the Firefox menu bar that I can also display as a sidebar while using Delicious plus several icons in a top menu bar that allow easy navigation. Safari didn’t seem to have these add on tools that Firefox has created.
I took me a little time to get use to searching for sites by tags being the library media specialist and trained to used Boolean search terms and phrases. I finally became a little more comfortable exploring by entering several tag words, adding a tag to a series of tags, removing a tag from the series to see how it affected the search results.
My professional experience has been completely in the K-5 area and I’m not yet comfortable with using social bookmarking with this level students. My concerns about security and protection from inappropriate sites have not been answered as to how to maintain a safe environment for the students. I certainly would be a proponent for staff development training for the teachers working at this level to organizing their own resources.
I also opened an account in edutagger. I really liked the concentration and selection of sites that edutagger displayed. I certainly would recommend this to other educators.
Both sites were fairly easy to use. I just need to raise my comfort level to move beyond my entry explorations. Being retired, I’ve not had a great need to bookmark many sites.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a discussion with two persons who are much younger and use technology extensively. One who is involved in the film industry, used Delicious to file movie reviews professionally and recipes for his personal cooking file. The other works for Sesame Street in NYC and has used Delicious but says she actually uses Twitter and just searches different archives. I really didn’t comprehend how that would be as efficient as having your own tags and bookmarks on one of the social bookmarking sites.
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