Social bookmarking is a great way to save, organize, and share web sites of interest to you and others. Traditional bookmarks allow you to save and categorize sites that you visit frequently, but social bookmarking sites allow you to do so much more. First of all, social bookmarking allows you to access your bookmarks from anywhere because your information is stored in the cloud and not on your device. When saving your bookmarks you can tag them to keep them organized and include descriptions to remind you why you wanted to save them. Depending on the social bookmarking site you are using, there are other tools that allow you to highlight and add notes to the web sites and save that information as part of your bookmark. Finally, all of this can be shared with the public, with groups that you have created, or just saved for yourself.
After reading about Delicious and Diigo, I decided to sign up for a Diigo account in order to explore social bookmarking. As I tried the different features of Diigo, I saw the potential for using this both with colleagues and with students. The ability to highlight and add sticky notes makes it easy to share not only the web site, but the specific information from that web site that you want your student(s) and/or colleague(s) to see. Diigo also makes it easy to create groups and keep the information you are sharing organized.
Using the Community tab in Diigo, I was able to search for sites of interest to me in my teaching. Chorus Teacher Resources included a great list of resources from advocacy, to vocal health, to lesson planning, to repertoire. Technology in Music Education is a blog dedicated to incorporating technology into the music classroom. Both resources are now saved and tagged in my Diigo account. As I continue to explore Diigo and social bookmarking in general, I hope to create a great list of resources for myself, my colleagues, and my students.
Diigo. Retrieved on February 3, 2014, from https://www.diigo.com/
Florida Vocal Association. Chorus Teacher Resources. Retrieved on February 9, 2014, from
http://fva.net/for-directors/ctr/
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms. (3rd ed.). Thousand Oak, California: Corwin.
Russell, C. Technology in Music Education. Retrieved on February 9, 2014, from
http://techinmusiced.wordpress.com/
After reading about Delicious and Diigo, I decided to sign up for a Diigo account in order to explore social bookmarking. As I tried the different features of Diigo, I saw the potential for using this both with colleagues and with students. The ability to highlight and add sticky notes makes it easy to share not only the web site, but the specific information from that web site that you want your student(s) and/or colleague(s) to see. Diigo also makes it easy to create groups and keep the information you are sharing organized.
Using the Community tab in Diigo, I was able to search for sites of interest to me in my teaching. Chorus Teacher Resources included a great list of resources from advocacy, to vocal health, to lesson planning, to repertoire. Technology in Music Education is a blog dedicated to incorporating technology into the music classroom. Both resources are now saved and tagged in my Diigo account. As I continue to explore Diigo and social bookmarking in general, I hope to create a great list of resources for myself, my colleagues, and my students.
Diigo. Retrieved on February 3, 2014, from https://www.diigo.com/
Florida Vocal Association. Chorus Teacher Resources. Retrieved on February 9, 2014, from
http://fva.net/for-directors/ctr/
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms. (3rd ed.). Thousand Oak, California: Corwin.
Russell, C. Technology in Music Education. Retrieved on February 9, 2014, from
http://techinmusiced.wordpress.com/