Monday, July 2, 2007
Thoughts on del.icio.us and My Space
I like del.icio.us for several reasons. First, I work on 3 different computers so it will be nice to have all my bookmarks available no matter what computer I am on. Also, it was really interesting to look at some of the other sites other people had tagged who had also tagged something I had chosen. I found a couple of really useful sites that I didn't know about and I'm sure that I'll continue to discover many new and wonderful sites. Lastly I can see this being useful for my students. I've recently started having my students create fairly quick projects on the computer, i.e. a Power Point presentation using only 4 or 5 slides. My goal is to have my students research and create something in 2 or 3 class periods instead of it taking a week or more. Setting up a class del.icio.us account and then tagging sites that they can use for specific projects will help. Hopefully it will also help to steer them away from using wikipedia as a research source. (A pet peeve of mine... but that's another story.) On the topic of My Space I saw a cool application of it in a science classroom in Boston. The kids created My Space pages for different scientific concepts. For example electron, proton, etc. They had to introduce themselves, describe what their interests were, create "friends" for the concept to chat with, etc. Needless to say the students were totally into the project. Is anyone else having problems with the online Quicktime tutorials? Perhaps it's a function of my age, but the screen shots on the already tiny quicktime screen are really hard to see. Any suggestions?
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I was amazed at the interesting and relevant links I got from del.icio.us when I looked at the people tagging the same things as me. This is the power of delicious as well as may of the social networking tools.
Very interesting use of MySpace ... one could teach the content (in a way that engages the students), provide a means to present the content, and teach about technology and MySpace specifically all at once. Cool.
Small Quicktime ... the movies are small (I can barely make out the text), but your Quicktime may be presenting them even smaller than I am getting. Have you tried full screen (would be very grainy), or other sizes? You could try at school? I could come look? You take a picture of your screen and send it (so I can see if it's smaller? You have a camera phone?) What would help?
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