A short explanation of the features and benefits of Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious.com. This video comes in an unbranded “presentation quality” version that can be licensed for use in the workplace. www.commoncraft.comThis video URL is … http://www.youtube.com/v/x66lV7GOcNU?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Tags:commoncraft,commoncraftshow,delicious,geek,howto,leelefever,paperworks,plainenglish,socialbookmarking,technology,web Related posts Social Bookmarking in Plain English (0) Social Networking in Plain English (0) Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! [...]

A commoncraft explanation of social bookmarking - saving websites to sites such as Delicious or Diigo.

While doing some research for this post, I can across an interesting article by Miguel Guhlin that I think does a really great job of explaining the rationale for this post.  In his article, “Spending that Internet Gold”, Guhlin makes a good argument for effective website searching by quoting Dr. Judi Harris:1. We all begin on the Web by “telegathering” (surfing) and “telehunting” (searching. This we can do pretty well. What we don’t do very well yet is to take educationally sound steps beyond telegathering and telehunting). 2. We need to help our students and ourselves “teleharvest” (sift through, cogitate, comprehend, etc.) the information that we find, and “telepackage” the knowledge that results from active interaction (application, synthesis, evaluation, etc.) with the information. 3. Then, we need to “teleplant” (telepublish, telecollaborate, etc.) these telepackages by sharing them with others…who use them as information in their… 4. …telegathering & telehunting, and the process cycles back around again. Most of us are at the tele-gathering and hunting stage, finding and collecting web sites that we believe are useful. How many educational web sites do you visit that have a list of lists, collections of fantastic sites on the web? Impossible to keep track of and maintain, these lists are just more information that each of us has to wade through, each time creating our own links. The pack mules can’t carry all the gold that we’ve found out there. Maybe, now that we’ve accumulated the gold, it’s time to do more than look at it. To do that, we have to know what’s valuable, what’s not. According to Jim McNamara (jmcn@tenet.edu), evaluating something means being able to extract the value out of it.QUESTION: “How do we help out students determine and extract the value of web resources?” or as Guhlin puts it, “pan for internet gold”.  How do we help our students to think critically in such a fast-paced, multi-tasking culture, when they typically have t

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