EDUC 300

Remember that it is NOT about the tools we use with our students, but the skills we are exposing them to and want them to get proficient in.

A social bookmarking site provides a way for students or teachers to save all of their links in one place on the Internet. These links are saved with one or more tags to help find the site in the future.  

According to Netcraft, there are more than 100 million Web sites on the Internet. Between 3 to 4 million new Web sites are added every month. How do educators keep this information organized? How do educators and students plod through this morass and separate the good from the bad and the ugly? Social bookmarking provides one way for users to get control of this information.

Live Binders is an online 3-ring binder.

Yes, we hardly master a technological tool that another version of it or another one is already in the market!! oufffff. Can you keep up with the pace??? You have to be both a marathon runner and sprinter at the same time What should  teachers do then to be able to follow the pace. The teachers who are themselves geeks are finding it so tiring, let alone those teachers who are reluctant to adapt to the new IT era.  How prepared are our educators? This is a legitimate question. A post by Andrew Marcinek describes this situation and suggests that teachers (and students) should be allowed to adapt to new tech at their own pace:

echnology now is everywhere. We don’t know where it will take us as teachers, but also as citizens of the world. It will surely help us build connections and provide new information even more faster; it will save us a lot of time searching for what we want. We cannot and should not miss the benefits. But we must also bear in mind that human beings are born to engage in real face-to-face warm interactions. Without this very characteristic which is exclusively human nothing can be gained!!!

“Building self-respect comes from struggle and achievement, not from being made comfortable.” I believe this is so true for students and faculty alike. It is why I like to try new things and set an example of exploration outside of my own comfort zone.

 Pinterest is a social booking marking site (a.k.a. an online bulletin board!) where people can “pin” their favorite things; anything from fashion and home décor to fitness tips and recipes.  Pinterest began as an invite only site, but users are rapidly multiplying, with women currently making up 58% of all traffic.

125+ Social Bookmarking/News Sites You Should Consider

Basically links are listed on a network, then whoever has access to that network can search for links that pertain to the keywords that person is searching for. Each link has three keywords associated with it, generally keywords that are optimized on their webpages, and when those keywords are searched for, ideally, it is that particular link that comes up. The concept of social bookmarking can be compared to personal bookmarks, or favorites lists.

Social media environments and online communities are innovative collaborative technologies that challenge traditional definitions of information literacy