Week 6 #15

After reading the Horizon Report on collective intelligence, collaborative websites, data mashups and social operating systems, I worry for our students. In this era of high stakes testing, where students are pushed more and more to memorize facts, where will students learn the skills necessary to be productive collaborators and judicious users of information?

Week 6 #14 Technorati

My first thought when exploring Technorati was dismay at not seeing an education button. While exploring I was suprised at how important blogging has become in the business world. Blogging may be an important skill for our students, unless something new comes along before our freshmen graduate!

The advantages of tagging for me are that we can use words that students use. Part of the difficulty my students have when using OPAC is the fact that they don't know the exact subject word to use to find what they want. The biggest disadvantage of tagging is that a slight variation in the tag word could leave out important web sites.

Week 6 #13 Delicious

Experimenting:



O.k. this is cool.
I see delicious as an interactive pathfinder. Where students can add links that they like and make comments on the links already provided. My biggest question is how do you separate the professional links in your account that would just confuse students with the educational links that you want them to use. I tried setting up a second account but that didn't go so well. Right now, I guess I'll just mark some web sites as private.