Delicious and Flickr

This week was "sharing, part 1" studying the bookmarking and photosharing tools.

I created accounts with delicious and flickr--should you care to check them out you could visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31162943@N04/

Flickr was a fun site. In the past I have never been able to use it because my old CES computer had it blocked. I liked looking at the top new pictures and saw many visuals that I thought, "I could use this in a talk." I liked it.

My delicious account is: http://delicious.com/johnhiltoniii yet sadly no bookmarks have been placed in here. I only use one computer and so I couldn't really find a good use for it. I did look up some of the "top bookmarks" and I thought they were good at pointing me towards good information. One site I liked was: http://lecturefox.com/mix/

Seeing as 1 Billion new pages are added to the Internet everyday, bookmarking tools can be very helpful for sifting through all the information; the key for me is finding people I like and trust point me to good places to go.

Interestingly enough (but perhaps not surprising) there are lots of groups looking at how to use these resources for educational.

Flickr sites:

http://www.jakesonline.org/flickrinclassroom.pdf
http://www.flickr.com/groups/33384223@N00/

Bookmarking for education:

http://www.edtags.org/ This site is not a "delicious" site, but it is pretty cool. It is a way to rank different education sites. I was impressed as it was a good way for me to sort through many different sites through finding out what others have found effective.

PS--I should say it is cool in "concept." Upon further looking into it, it appears that this isn't as developed as it could be. What I thought was #1 vote, was actually that only 1 person had voted on it...