Sunday, September 22, 2019

Social Bookmarking Synthesis


Social Bookmarking Synthesis
Module 3
#EDUC6710
Angela Williams
Walden University




Instructor:
Kathryn Arnold

EDUC 6710J

Understanding the Impact of Technology on Education, Work and Society

September 22, 2019
·         What was your experience collaborating with this tool?
    • I found using the diigo tool/app was easy.  After downloading the extension to my Google Chrome browser, it was a matter of a click to save it to my page in diigo.com.  As a group, we shared and saved blog links to various required topics.  Keeping track of what has been posted/shared to our group page is easy to see.  There is an option to download a csv file.  This file contains the Title, URL, Tags, Description, Annotation, Comment and the handle for the poster.  I find this very helpful for keeping track of postings.
·         What went well?
    • I have used diigo before while attending the University of Missouri at St. Louis, much like this course. There was a whole class group that we saved links to educational resources for teaching Social Studies.  I no longer have access to that group though.  It was deleted when the course was over. 
    • What went well this time was the ease of use.  Once I added the extension, I was able to save pages of interest.  After saving them (the links) I was able to go to my Library and tag the links I saved. 
·         What insights did you gain about social bookmarking?
    • Insights from social bookmarking are that it can get out of control.  I am wondering if there is a took much is too much situation when saving links of use?  Working towards the future, I would like to become better organized in the saving format.
·         What did you learn from this experience that will inform how you teach your students to use social bookmarking for the first time?
    • What I have learned from this experience is the need for organization.  Learning to set up tags that will be making saving and retrieving more efficient and easier is going to be essential.  I will share this information with my students as well.  The advice I will give them will be to make a primary tag for the subject, then tag the saved item in a way that they will remember.  I will also let them know that going back to the saved searches and changing, deleting and adding is okay.  This is one time that using the internet and 21st Century technology to save and share is okay that it is permanent.   
·         What is at least one idea for using social bookmarking in your classroom?
    • One idea for using social bookmarking in my classroom would be for study resources.  In this form, students can share their quality sources to help themselves and their classmates when studying for exams.
·         How might it prepare your students for college and career readiness in the 21st-Century world?
    • By learning to share in this manner it could help students that are long-distance learners, such as our situation in this course.  It could prepare students for the virtual jobs they could be working in their futures.  Social bookmarking will allow them to interact with coworkers and classmates in a real-time format, but also allow them to not have to respond in real-time.
    • When working on a presentation in our 21st Century technology world it will be important to find all the viable and accurate sources possible to complete projects.  This is one way of brainstorming ideas as a group without being all at the same table.  It allows the midnight thought to be shared, without waking up someone.  It also transcends time zones.  If you have a project that is being worked over time zones and over continents, social bookmarking will allow searches to be shared easily.
·         Support your response with a reference to at least one peer-reviewed journal article, either from your content area or the educational field, and an explanation as to how its use relates to at least one of the RWRCOEL Technology Proficiencies.
    • One site that was shared is https://www.editme.com/ in my social bookmarking Group 3.  Now, this site is a site you must pay for to be a full member.  This could be a very valuable site for any school that is willing to purchase a membership for its staff.  On here you share your lesson plans. 
This is a valuable resource for teachers, new and experienced.  Often, we are presented with new information and curriculum to put into effect in our classrooms. As educators, there are so many demands placed on us that when we must write a completely new curriculum lesson plan, we could use some help.  Using a site like this will keep us from having to reinvent the wheel each time.  Instead, we can find support from other teachers that have used the lesson plan and follow their advice and notes on how to make the lesson our own. Taylor it to our needs.

Using this wiki or a site like it would relate to item 3 in the RWRCOEL Technology Proficiencies; Communication and Collaboration: Candidates use digital media tools in communicating and working collaboratively with students, families, colleagues, and community stakeholders to improve and/or enhance student learning. 

·         How does this experience meet at least one ISTE Standard for Teachers and one ISTE Standard for Students? 
I feel that this experience meets ISTE Standard for Teachers # 4 Collaborator:
Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.  For students, #6 Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.



References

Bob Pletka, E. (2007). Educating the Net Gerneration. Santa Monica, California: Santa Monica Press.
Jonassen, D. H. (2006). Modeling with Technology, Mindtools for Conceptual Change. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Thousand Oaks: Corwin, A Sage Company.
Richardson, W. (2015). From Master Teacher to Master Learner. Bloomington, Indiana: Solution Tree.


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EDUC TECH 6710



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