This week we were introduced to a bunch of new sites dealing with technology tools. We discussed mind-mapping and looked at some websites for those. This is a cool idea that used anyway but now I do it virtually and with more ease. We also talked about social bookmarking which is awesome. The old way of this concept is in saving favorite or most used websites like you would on a "favorites" or "bookmark" menu using your internet provider. However, those are only tied to one computer. The new way is using a site like delicious where you can post your favorite websites to a host website. Using the website, you can add relevant tags to these so that people trying to search a topic similar can find those common websites that actually help with their topic. Essentially, you can search through everyone's "favorites" to find reliable websites that other people use for a particular topic.
In education, mind-mapping can be used for brainstorming as a class or individually. It would be really great when it comes time for 5-paragraph essays. Yes, these things could be done on paper. However, doing them over the internet is great for sharing ideas and sending your mind-map to someone else. These are neat for lesson plans and are very user-friendly. Social bookmarking can be used in education to share websites based on interests. It would be easy for teachers to share other useful education websites with their colleagues. It could also be good for parent-teacher-student relations. The teacher could suggest websites dealing with material that the class is learning as supplemental information or as a compliment to something already taught. By making a tag such as "Ms.Walburn'sclass", it makes things easy to find and more exclusive because no one else would search that.
This video walks you through how to use Delicious as well as another social bookmarking page Diigo. I found it very useful.
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