Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thing 17
For thing 17 we had to explore Delicious, which is a social bookmarking site. Delicious was pretty easy to use once I got the hang of it. You do have to set up an account, but once you do that you are good to go. The site is free to use and has an overwelming amount of links and information for almost anything you are looking for. When looking up the term "educational technology", I found so many different links to sites that gave me such great ideas for the things I could do in my classroom using technology. One of the site was ways to use ipads with elementary education students. I was really interested in this one because I will be teaching elementary education, and I myself have an Ipad and my 4 year old son loves it, there is so many educational games that I would love to introduce to my future class to help teach a lesson. Overall, I think social bookmarking is great. I actually already had a stumbleUpon app on my phone and I love it. I love the idea of getting to share things you find with other people and them also sharing stuff with you. Being able to bookmark it makes it even better because you know where to find it if you need to use it again. Bookmarking is not only great for communication and sharing, but also great for organizing and I will be using these social bookmarking sites in the future for my classroom.
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I too saw the site about using iPads in the elementary education classroom. I think that if every school had two- three class sets, it would dramatically increase the learning levels of so many children. I already had a Delicious account (but hadn't used it since freshman year) and had no idea you could search tags like that. Just goes to show you should do your own little research for stuff like that.
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