Week 3 Readings

http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/social-bookmarking
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45976/output/print
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

WEB 2.0
One of the best quotes I came across when reading these articles was this:
"Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live."

Social Bookmarking:
I actually didn't know anything about this subject until I completed the reading of this article. I have always had a hard time keeping track of sites I find valuable and then somehow transporting them to the computers at school for my students to use.
If a student or teacher searches for information on a topic, a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us provides links to sites that other people have found valuable.

Classroom Management: Students and teachers can move from one computer to another and still have full access to their bookmarks. Students and teachers will be less likely to forget the location of the sites they have used. This makes it easy for older students to come into the younger students' classroom and collaborate together about different topics being taught in the curriculum.