Week 2: Social Bookmarking

20 January 2010: Social Bookmarking

1- Overview

Have you ever found a great website online, but later because you didn't save it or you didn't have access to the computer where you viewed the website you couldn't locate the website address again? If so, you need social bookmarking. By using social bookmarks to save good websites we find online, we save our "finds" in the cloud of servers which are on 24/7. Social bookmarking not only lets us save our websites in a location where we can find them readily on any computer, it also lets us categorize them in a flexible way using tags and collaborate with others. This week we will explore social bookmarking by using the free service Diigo, and also review our work from last week on blogging.

    1. Students will review lesson 1 skills and content.

    2. Students will be introduced to social bookmarking.

    3. Students will be introduced to tagging.

    4. Students will be introduced to folksonomies as a way of organizing information.

2- Lesson

Archived videos of today's primary lecture and follow-up Q&A session is available on our T4T Scribes blog. (This was recorded in the 11-1 section 63 class.) Weekly lecturecasts are accessible from t4t.blip.tv, and are iPhone / iPod Touch compatible.

        1. Note value of using at least 1 image in a post (cross-posts to Facebook. I'm using CC images from Compfight)

3- Assignments

      1. Read and share a thoughtful, constructive comment on at least TWO posts written by your T4T classmates. Use our T4T Netvibes Page and our T4T Class Blog Bundle (from Wesley's Google Reader) to find posts.

    1. K-12 Student blog feedback:

      1. Select an active classroom blog (using the classroom blog finder) that you would like to serve as an informal "blogging buddy" this term for.

      2. Write at least 2 constructive feedback post on student blog posts following our feedback rubric (save these links because you'll need them later!

      3. Add the link to your student blog comment to your Diigo account, tagging it "t4t-sbc" (without quotation marks - sbc = student blog comment)

    1. Blog posts: (3 for this week)

4- Resources

  1. Social Bookmarking on the English WikiPedia

    1. Our T4T Netvibes Page

  2. Diigo

  1. Wesley Fryer on Diigo

5- Review

These are questions you should be able to readily answer, based on your completion of this week's assignments.

What is the direct URL / link to your social bookmarks library on Diigo? (Example: www.diigo.com/user/wfryer)

What is the direct URL / link to your Diigo groups? (This should include at least the three OTHER groups on Diigo you joined, not including our T4T Diigo group. Example: groups.diigo.com/user/wfryer)

What is the direct URL / link to your blog reflection about Nafiza's video?

What is the direct URL / link to your blog reflection about Rachel Boyd's "Peek for a Week" video?

What is the direct URL / link to the first K-12 student blog post on which you left a thoughtful and constructive comment this week, following our "Constructive Commenting with Social Media" guidelines?

What is the direct URL / link to the second K-12 student blog post on which you left a thoughtful and constructive comment this week, following our "Constructive Commenting with Social Media" guidelines?

What is the direct URL / link to the first blog post written by one of your T4T classmates on which you left a thoughtful and constructive comment this week, following our "Constructive Commenting with Social Media" guidelines?

What is the direct URL / link to the second blog post written by one of your T4T classmates on which you left a thoughtful and constructive comment this week, following our "Constructive Commenting with Social Media" guidelines?

What is the direct URL / link to your blog post including links to at least 2 comments you left on K-12 student blog sites, and at least 2 comments to posts written by your T4T classmates?

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