Thing 17

First of all, let me say that I love the Common Craft Show and their tutorials in plain English. I love the way that he breaks the information down and makes it so user friendly. All you see are his hands and visual representations of what I need to do. I have learned that I can't read and learn. I have to see and do it. I felt like after I watched the tutorial, that I could easily understand social bookmarking.

I research the internet all the time for information for my history and geography classes. A lot of students don't like those subjects and the internet is a great way for me to find interesting sites to spark their interest. The problem that I am running into is I find great sites on my computer at work and I bookmark them, but when I work at home, I have to try and find those sites again so that I can have them on my computer at home. About a month ago, I remember thinking, "I wish someone would come up with a better way to do this." I had no idea that I could be saving and tagging my bookmarks on the web and sharing with other teachers.
I love the idea of social bookmarking because I can take my classroom research wherever I go. I can look up and bookmark my websites and tag them into categories. I can share with other teachers and get their websites. I love it. As far as using this in the classroom, I'm still a little on the fence. I think that this is more of a teacher tool than a student tool. That being said, I think that this would be a great way for students who are older to keep up with research for classes in high school and college.