Social bookmarking can be useful in many educational setting. Students can share with each other sites that help them find information on a certain topic if they were doing a paper or something or some kind of project. They can click on the site without having to search through a search engine, which can be time consuming. Having the bookmarks has the websites already there for you to click on. Teachers can bookmark sites on classroom management tips, lesson plans, etc. Take for example, if you were looking for science lesson plans on plants, you can do a search on top and sites will be given to you. For the most part, they would be relevant. Adminstrators can also bookmark links to articles on education as well as lesson plans or classroom management tips. Teachers and administrators can also bookmark sites for parents in regards to organizations if familities need help of any sort (i.,e. NAMI) or tips or articles for parents to support their children's education. It seems that social bookmarking saves time from search engines because search engines often just pick up words that you type in and their sites are not always what you are looking for. But with social bookmarking, these are sites that others have found useful for the chosen topic and thus may be useful to you. I know that if someone recommended a site, I would be more enclined to look at it and maybe make some use of it.
"Instrucional design and technology mentions all of the areas mentioned." "Instructional design practices have broadened so that many of the concepts associated with the performance technology movement now regularly used by those individuals who call themselves instructional designers."
I am not sure that concept of instructional design is new so to speak. We all design our ways of teaching and lessons. Just because we put some technology into it does not make our design of instruction any more or less. Also, I am not sure I think of technology as a process. Technology to me is more of the folloowing definigtion, "Instructional technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources of learning." We as teachers all design, manage, and evaluate our lessons, whether what we did was successful and make changes and adjustments if necessary. However, in all of these defintions that I read about, there seems to be one thing missing - the acutal incoroporation of technology in teaching and learning. All of the definitions seem to have to do with lesson planning, which can or cannot include actual technology in the lesson plans. But the 1994 definition seems to be closest to what we do today.
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I agree with Social bookmarking being a good way to avoid the search engines for the students. It's funny how they have a way of getting side tracked onto a million different sites while they are doing "research". With the bookmarking tool teachers can easily keep the students on task.
I completely agree with you that social bookmarking pages for students can help save them time with looking for sites. I wonder if we use this too often would we hurt our students in the long run? Searching for information on the internet is a skill. A skill that students need to develop.
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