WHS Project: Technology

The two of these sites are great for saving your online “favorites” or “bookmarks”. Google Notebook does require that you sign in and create an account so it can save them in your account. You can create within the Notebook different categories for your sites. If you are planning a research project for your students, you can create sub categories within a Notebook for the topics, populate the categories with sites, and then print & distribute copies of the research sites for your students. You can also publish your Notebook to your webpage for students to access.

I like Del.icio.us myself! This is what’s termed a “social network of bookmarks”. In other words, as I bookmark my favorite sites, Del.icio.us will check to see how many other people have bookmarked the same site and link us together so I can view their sites. Its pretty amazing to see how many people are sharing similar interests by the sites they pick. I can also see other sites in the same interest that they may recommend and add those to my favorites as well.

Both Del.icio.us and Notebook have the option to install a piece of software to your computer that attaches to your IE or Mozilla browser so you can click it on any site you find and it automatically adds the site to your favorites. Pretty cool!

http://del.icio.us

http://google.com/notebook

Let us know if you use these, visit these, or have plans to integrate this into your classes.