I have not used any bookmarking sites before so this was totally new to me. I had heard of them before but I never felt that I would have a use for them. I have always used the favorites/bookmark option on my browser. For me that has been suficient enough for my needs. My only problem was when we had to wipe out the hard drive or get a new computer I would lose all of them and did not know how to get them back. Thanks to diigo and delicious I now have a way to save all my bookmarks that does not depend on my computer.
When I compared these two sites I did not see much of a difference. They both give you the option to tag, upload, friend and find popular sites. The one difference between the two that I liked was on diigo when I was looking at a certain tag to find websites there was an option to preview the website right there. I did not have to open another window and could even interact with the website to see if I liked it before I added it.
There was one problem with both of the sites. I tried to get the add on to my toolbar and after I downloaded it it told me it was not compatable with firefox 4. This was a major bummer because I wanted to see if there was an easier way to add favorites as I searched the internet. I also had a hard time putting my favorites from firefox on it. This was because the menu item that the directions told me to look for was not there. I had to search for a while and finally found it. I don't know if there is a way but they need to somehow have an easy way to add a new bookmark when I add it to my firefox bookmarks. Of course this may have been an option in the toolbar I could not have.
The only way that I would think that I might use these sites was to find new math websites. This would be because I know if they are popular then they must be good to use.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Virtual Worlds in education
I had already done some extensive investigating into Second Life before because of my online communications class. I find that it is a cool place to explore. It is very visually pleasing. It has some cool things to explore. I found a virtual hallucinations island. That was a weird place to explore. It is supposed to show you how it is to be schizophrenic. I have explored the virtual colosseum, aquariums and even a 3D Bloom's Taxonomy in the past. I think this is a great place to have meetings where you can put a face to a name. As a teacher you can post slides and videos for students to learn from. This is pretty much what I learned from the past explorations.
Since I was basically doing this assignment twice I thought I would go more in depth of how Second Life(SL) could be used in education. I started to do some research on the internet about virtual worlds in general. Really SL is the one that kept popping up. I looked more into what it had to offer then. I ran into an article that had a few top islands in SL. One that stood out to me was Really Engaging Accounting. I teach math so I thought I would look into how you could teach math using SL. This island was designed to make people into debits or credits. They were to actually go through the exercise of obtaining items and using formulas. As they obtained items they saw how it changed the formula automatically. I know I do not do the island justice but I would check it out.
Then I ran into the SLOODLE island. It is Moodle connected to SL. You can either comment while in SL or while you are in Moodle and the comments show up in both places. The Moodle website and SL are linked together. You can learn using the 3D virtual world of SL and the answers go to the online classroom of Moodle. It even had where you could take a quiz in SL and the grade goes directly to Moodle. Most of this is done using the Moodle toolbar that you must attach to yourself. This just shows how all the things we are learning about link together. If you would like to learn more about SLOODLE check out this article or just go to the SLOODLE island in SL and it will explain it all for you.
The last thing that I will add is the picture of me in Selmo Park. I found a cool place that I would like to hangout.
Since I was basically doing this assignment twice I thought I would go more in depth of how Second Life(SL) could be used in education. I started to do some research on the internet about virtual worlds in general. Really SL is the one that kept popping up. I looked more into what it had to offer then. I ran into an article that had a few top islands in SL. One that stood out to me was Really Engaging Accounting. I teach math so I thought I would look into how you could teach math using SL. This island was designed to make people into debits or credits. They were to actually go through the exercise of obtaining items and using formulas. As they obtained items they saw how it changed the formula automatically. I know I do not do the island justice but I would check it out.
Then I ran into the SLOODLE island. It is Moodle connected to SL. You can either comment while in SL or while you are in Moodle and the comments show up in both places. The Moodle website and SL are linked together. You can learn using the 3D virtual world of SL and the answers go to the online classroom of Moodle. It even had where you could take a quiz in SL and the grade goes directly to Moodle. Most of this is done using the Moodle toolbar that you must attach to yourself. This just shows how all the things we are learning about link together. If you would like to learn more about SLOODLE check out this article or just go to the SLOODLE island in SL and it will explain it all for you.
The last thing that I will add is the picture of me in Selmo Park. I found a cool place that I would like to hangout.
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