Focus Question: How are information management technologies such as bookmarking, social bookmarking, and information alerts useful to teachers.
Information management technologies such as bookmarking are very useful to teachers (and everyone) because, although I like to believe teachers are informational sources themselves, we can't always remember where we've found useful information. I have just been introduced to "Delicious" which is a bookmarking website where I can store a website I found, by labeling it with words that I would use to describe it later if I had forgotten the title. Also on this site, you can become "Friends" with one another and network informational sites, view each others profile, and access many other sites we may not have known about. By bookmarking our sites online, with the use of our computer, we can effectively store our information in one place, becoming organized, and easily accessible.
Tech Tool: An Interactive Online Field Trip: The Cave of Chauvet-Point-D'Arc.
The World Wide Web is in fact endless, it holds many opportunities, and awaits what we can create next. By utilizing the internet, we can connect with numerous people and organizations, we can become interactive and broaden our "Group work." For example, in a science class we can do dissections, and take a virtual tour around the inside of our specimen. The best part of being interactive, is the long distant learning. We can communicate with people and other scholars across the world.
Summary:
To conclude, teaching with educational websites, and other online resources, are very useful in today's fast paced modern world. With so many useful websites to interact with, by bookmarking them, using "Tags" to label them with words to better describe, so you could find anything with ease at your finger tips. The use of technology has tremendously impacted our world, and with the use of it, we can navigate ourselves to every corner of it.
Resources:
Textbook - Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2011). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN:10 0-13-159611-X, ISBN:13 978-0-13-159611-5
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The power of tagging and using those tags to search is intriguing and offers some interesting results. Hope you can use the bookmarking websites to better build your 'library'! :) Do remember to make the photo/video as part of your blog post instead of an add-on at the end of your post. Also, you mention the tech tool as "The Cave of Chauvet-Point-D'Arc" but it was never discussed and it wasn't hyperlinked - missed connection?!
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