Personally, I have not used delicious as much as I have wished. It seems quite tricky for me to navigate around, so I have not been as motivated to look through the site.
I did look through many of my other classmates links and found many of them that I added to my own list of links. I found that many people tagged links on technology which I didn't even think to tag before. I added some of them to my list as well. I also found the "free" links to be quite interesting so I plan to add those as well. It is great to be able to share with others so that as well all know, "two heads are better than one," and the things we don't even think about searching for come up in others' tags, then you think "why didn't I think of that."
Why I was looking for sites to tag, I chose to find a lot of links on behavior and behavior management because that is what my PDP research is about. I also plan to find and tag more links that relate directly to my curriculum so that they can be easily assessable to my teaching throughout the year. As I looked at others' tags, I did get many more ideas to tag. I haven't done any of that curriculum tagging yet, but plan to do more over the summer when I can sit down with my books and get information for each content area. If I was to teach children about tagging, I think I would go through the same steps we did in this class because it was a nice and easy pace that we learned at.
Tag bundles are very useful for because then you can get all your information in one place and makes your time spent getting information more efficient. If using tag clouds, like I stated before, I used mostly my behavioral management links because that is part of my PDP research. I added annotations to my links because it made them easier for me to remember what it was I had interest in at each site.
When trying to see who had a lot of the same links that I used I was quite surprised to find out that many of my classmates were on the same links.
I think that there were so many web 2.0 tools I have learned about this semester that I would like to use in my classroom and district. I have not yet talked to administration yet about these tools only because our school has been busy with many other changes that I did not want to interrupt. If I was to recommend some to my administration, I think that I would set up a lesson or how I am going to use it in a lesson so that they can see a visual of what I'm recommending. I would hope that this would convince them of the value by not only reading the information about the tool but also seeing an example of it.
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Setting up a lesson on how you would use web 2.0 tools sounds like a great idea! Just saying "Wow, it has a lot of uses" may not be as effective a means of communication to a tech coordinator or administrator as saying "There are so many uses for this, like THIS ONE. Here's how I would use it." Even giving one good use might be enough for them to open up a tool for you that one time to see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteHi - I enjoyed reading your blog on Delicious! At first when I tried using this tool, I found it difficult to navigate around also; but with a little practice I found it to be quite user-friendly! I hope you are able to convince your administration of the ideas you have about wanting to use some of the new web 2.0 tools that we learned about in this course. Perhaps you could show them your completed Unit Development Project for this class? That may convince them!
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