Week #5 reflections.

Blog Reflection #5 - opened early

Q: After completing the MAPping information activity, what are your reactions to your findings?

A: I reached the conclusion that these websites are very in-depth and extensive and are awesome resource.

Q: What will you do differently while searching on the Internet for information now?

A. I will have to internet search more often and expand my list of favorites.

Q: How confident are you with the information you've used in the past (as part of your college career and/or in your profession)?

A>.  have been fairly comfortable as it seemed to meet my actual needs

Q. What are some implications for the future of our students if we fail to teach them these skills in school? After all, the schools may block access to sites, but students still have access at home.

A.I knew when my late 20s –early 30 yr old kids would need to be masters of technology of this sort when they were little guys and gals.  That’s why we got them a computer as soon as we could save up and purchase one.  Now, they all are awesome with it.  They tear them down and put them back together as well.  My granddaughter was the youngest child to ever be in an advance placement, 1^st grade, 4 yrs ago!  And, they were learning about the MS ppt program and she was rockin’ through it creating away, searching the web, and capturing screens, talking the jargon. It certainly reinforced my gladness at that long ago decision. She had exposure in the early years, had a computer at home and computer savvy parents. Now there’s three computers in that house hold and we have four ourselves and each of my other kids have computers and Iphones, Ipads, notebooks, etc…. we are not lack in technology exposure.  I can’t tell you how many cell phones my grands chewed the rubber antennae’s off of while teething!.  Certainly an expensive teething ring but definite an out pour of our society.

Q).Do you see any advantages for organizing your information via Delicious?

A.) Boy did I ever! I can’t wait to have my classes create a webliography for me and then later I will use it as a resource for the whole class.

Q.) What else did you find when exploring the other bookmarking applications? 

A). I found some variations of layout and search functions and thematic focused

Q.What are some ways you think you could use tools like these in the future?

A) I will certainly use it in my classes and diffidently for the lit-review

Impressions of  Social Bookmarkings:

I found Blinklist.com to be formatted similar to Del.icio.us after you got into the actual search engine for the site.  I did like seeing the three sections of Most recent, Most frequent and Most popular listing on the main page before you went into the site search.  I will consider this one as possible for my own personal usage.

Diigo the spinoff of Del.icio.us had annotation and archieves and was more focused on education and it did seem more likely to bring up things like lesson plans and teaching resources.

Del.icio.us, the model for Diigo in infrastructure but focuses on the non-academic more readily.

Stumble upon was an okay site, I did like the intro pics at the beginning appearing that is an application that I wish was on the other sites as well.

Toobla was under construction however I could tell what was going on from the main page displays. I will need to return to this page and exam it more in-depth, I’m curious about the screenshots app how well will it compare to my Camtasia studios app..