Collected the Week of September 23rd
Know & Go @your Library
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Social Bookmarking The concept of social bookmarking is not necessarily new, but with the emergence of bookmarking services, such as Pinterest, Diigo, and Educlipper, allow you to curate, collaborate, and share your content on any internet connected device. So, there is no need to really save those bookmarks to your desktop any longer. Pinterest—is a hybrid of both content cura on and social bookmarking. It is a pla"orm that enables users to visually bookmark digital content and share it with others. Through crea ng and sharing boards with others, users get to discuss, access, and collaborate on cura ng resources relevant to their interest. Cau on: You can easily loose hours of your day looking through all the boards:) Diigo—This is another great social bookmarking web tool for teachers. It is probably the quintessence of the concept social bookmarking. using Diigo, you get to bookmark content into lists that can be accessed by others. You can also access bookmarks of others and tag them into different categories. Educlipper—This more focused on content cura on, Educlipper allows you to bookmark sites, share files, and discuss them with others. You can create an Educlipper board and invite others to visit it and share comments on the content curated in it. Educlipper is ideal for classroom usage. (Educator Weekly) Concept mapping—The idea of having students show rela onships between concepts through a diagram has become a meaningful learning experience, especially since there are great graphic making tools, such as Lucid Chart (which comes highly recommend), Mind Meister and bubbl.us. All of these tools have been are highly useable and fairly intui ve. Teachers and students have the ability to organize and communicate ideas through these solid products. (Thanks for the sugges ons Bill)
The World’s Cons tu ons to Read, Search and Compare Every year approximately five new cons tu ons are wri2en throughout the world, and 20-30 are amended or revised. A cri cal part of dra7ing a new cons tu on is referencing and comparing exis ng cons tu onal documents—but un l now, these documents have been hard to access. With this in mind, +Google Ideas supported the Compara ve Cons tu ons Project to build and launch Cons tute (h2p://goo.gl/wj3iIO)—a new site that digi zes the world's cons tu ons and makes them searchable by anyone. (compliments of Google in Educa on)