Monday, May 18, 2009
Using Social Bookmarking in the Classroom
Currently I am (or at least trying to) teaching the 5th graders how to use research to create a report. The students have created an outline using the outline function in MS Word. The outline will lead them to create a 5 paragraph essay. To make it a bit more interesting, the students will be creating a PowerPoint presentation to present their report. The last slide will contain works cited. I can see the application of social bookmarking in this situation. It took some time for the students to find web sites that contained the needed information. Next year, when I repeat this lesson, I will create a closed group with the students as members. I will teach them how to use Diigo in order to bookmark relevant sites and then to share these bookmarks. I'm sure that the students will find this extremely helpful. Currently, even though I explained how to save a URL, or at least print out the first page of the URL so that they will have the correct address for the bibliography, most invariably "can't remember" where they got the information. I think that they will even have fun with this.
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