Before I begin my summary about thing 8, I want to again say wow!! I must say I signed up for the things to get my time and be done with it. However I have been so impressed by what I have learned. I am excited to get back to work and start applying some of the "things".
Now on to thing 8...I wish I had known about this years ago. Techonology has made some major advancements in the past few years. I can see where this will come in handy saving sites as a teacher to use for planning, ideas, and more. But I think setting up a class account for students to be able to go back and reference is an excellent idea (also setting up a place for parents to find homework help). Of course the best thing about this thing is having the ability to work from different computers. How many times have I put something in my favorites on a computer only to need that information when I am on another computer?
My delicious name is bullbugg99. I found the site very user friendly and easy to use. I believe teaching students to use and access it would be fairly easy once they practiced using it. As with all techonology students would need to be monitored closely.
Wow! Thanks so much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the course and will be able to use some of what you learned in the coming year!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had no problem creating your Delicious account and adding your bookmarks. Isn't it a lifesaver? Before I discovered Delicious, I used to get so frustrated because I would sit down at my home computer and would be unable to find a site that I had bookmarked on my school computer!
Creating resource lists for students or parents are a great idea, and one of the cool things about Delicious is that you can access a list of links with a common tag by typing it into the actual URL. For example, adding the tag "thing1" to the end of the 8 Things Delicious site, like this http://delicious.com/sisd8things/thing1, will take you to a list of links that have been tagged with "thing1." So, as you're tagging sites on Delicious, you could add a tag like "parents" or "researchproject," and send students or parents directly to that list of links without having to confuse them with the rest of your links.
Great response! Doesn't it feel great to be done? 8 Things complete!