I've spent last night and this morning exploring delicious and diigo. I think I spent so much time trying to understand these sites because I feel I don't know much about technology, and I want to take full advantage of these tools. Here are my conclusions:
I joined both sites (I had actually joined delicious because I was trying to send my comic strip from Tool 4 to a safe place - hehe, I didn't want to loose it). I tried a few different tags, but wanted to try 2 that were the same on both sites to see what results they would come up with. I tried the tags "reading strategies" and "word families."
Delicious was easy to navigate and manage, but didn't show as many results for my searches. I bookmarked these sites:
Reading Rockets: Classroom Strategies
Diigo's layout was even more user friendly. The links were cleaner and easier to read. They definitely had more matches result from my searches. I joined a group called LearningwithComputers, and bookmarked these sites I liked:
Word Way
FreeReading
I look forward to trying the highlight and post-it tools on diigo for my personal use, and also with my older students. It will be a great way to learn, practice and work together on their reading skills.
It looks great, sis! Good job! I'm proud of you! I know it is very time consuming, but you're getting a hang of it! Good luck on your other ones!
ReplyDeleteI spent a lot of time this summer creating a Delicious account and populated it with my favorite websites. I really like the Arcademic Skill Builder site you referenced above and have added it to my Delicious account. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteMillie