Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on building up a library on the social bookmarking site, Diigo. A social bookmarking site is a way to save and organize information that you have found on the Internet. You make a title for your information, post the URL and a description of the source and you can even add tags, or phrase words that help you organize. Tags can be created to help you separate different between different topics or types of sources. These allow you to click on a Tag and you now have access to all of your Internet sources that you have found under this category. Until now I did not really have away to keep up with things I have found interesting of helpful on the Internet. If I did try to save it I would save it under my favorites, and always forget about it. Now I have a way to store everything I have found useful for education, art and teaching in my classroom, and I can share all of this with friends and other users of Diigo.
I have been posting all the wonderful videos and articles that I have been introduced to through my classmates and other bloggers. These will be things that I have to read for professional development and things I can use to incorporate into my classroom activities and instruction. I found some great sites and blogs that I will use to get new ideas and inspirations for projects. Some over these resources include, Art21, a website about 21st century and contemporary art, ALEX, for course of study and standards, and blogs and websites of other Art Teachers. I hope that by sharing my sources, other Diigo users and Art teachers find my library helpful by reading some of the articles and exploring new ways of teaching for the 21st learning, finding inspiration and ideas for their classrooms and by sharing information with me so that I might learn from them.
I have attached my bookmarking library from Diigo. Please fill free to explore these ideas and save them on your own sites. I hope that you enjoy!!
http://www.diigo.com/user/bklynmarie
Brooklyn,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this assignment because it really was beneficial to me. I plan to use the Delicious account to store and organize websites online for personal and business purposes. I did look on Diigo at your resources and I saw a few that might be useful for me. Especially, any site that will help students analyze art pieces in a historical manner. The tags are a great tool as well because they allow individuals to locate sites by keywords. So, in closing, I really think this will help educators become well organized as far as the online resources. Now, if we can get schools to shift toward more online or e-documents rather than PAPERWORK by hand daily!!!!
I wonder why I am just now finding out about social bookmarking. It would have been such a helpful tool in my college career. I would have been able to collect and organize all my resources I found throughout college in order to build a list that would grow as I grew.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it has been helpful in keeping up with sites posted by classmates that I liked. This collection will certainly be beneficial as a growing professional. It will remind me of helpful classroom tips I found, lesson ideas, and professional development opportunities.
Social bookmarking definitely has its place in the 21st Century classroom as it connects students and teachers to a network of people sharing information with each other