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http://www.diigo.com/dashboard/cerika66 Here is my Diigo information or here is the quicklink.
I can see that this would be an easy resource for sending information to my students. Instead of having them copy out a web address and then going to the computer lab, I can have them log on to my Diigo page and then click from there. From personal experience, I know the kids don't always pay attention when they're typing and they're not likely to figure out they missed the _ or whatever character. This takes time away from instruction and exploration when they have to retype the web address 5x and then call me over to see what they missed.
I must admit that I didn't see adding tags as being very useful. I thought the description was a much more informative feature. Descriptions take up more space, but when I want a level 1 student to practice listening skills, I don't want to type in "listening" and send him to the advanced page by mistake. I would need to look at the description to see "beginner activities." Maybe tags are more useful if I had links to hundreds of websites, but at this point, it's not a problem to scroll through 10 or so looking for the exact one I want.
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I struggle with tagging too! I think the reason for tagging can be more to help *others* find certain sites as much or more than to help us find our own. For example, if I were looking at your diggo page because I knew you were a French teacher, and I was specifically looking for a link to a site with high school French lesson plans, I might search for "lesson plans" in your tags ... which would be much easier than reading all of the descriptions ...
ReplyDeleteOf course, as my mom would say, I'm certainly not "practicing what I'm preaching" lol because most of my bookmarks only have one tag and many aren't tagged at all :-)