5. Social Bookmarking-Jan

Becoming a Connected Educator
Seminar #3: Social Bookmarking
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Remember, you may post questions/comments/ideas in real-time during seminars by accessing and posting on: http://todaysmeet.com/nfeldmannPD

Show and Tell:

• What experiences, struggles, celebrations have you encountered in the last month? Show and/or tell the participants about it!

Hook:

• There are more than 15 billion webpages and it is growing exponentially! How do you avoid becoming overwhelmed with all of the information?
• You probably bookmark items on your school computer...what happens when you get home though?
• What if you could see other's bookmarks or share your bookmarks with your students?
• What exactly is social bookmarking?

Video/Demonstration:

• http://www.commoncraft.com/video/social-bookmarking This video has an overview of how and why to use Delicious.
• Share two other sites: Symbaloo and Diigo...give demonstration of how to use these

Discussion:

• How could social bookmarking make a difference in your teaching practice?
• How could you use social bookmarking with your students?

Active Participation:

• Sign in to one of the three choices: Delicious, Diigo, Symbaloo
• Begin to bookmark and label important sites
• Add PLC members to begin the socialization piece

Reflection: (watch for recap of questions/confusions on this wiki page after the seminar!)

• What have you learned/taken away from today?
• What is most useful? What are you still confused about?