Social Bookmarking Plan
The complexity of social bookmarking is truly amazing. Professionally, I know social bookmarking will help me grow as I learn from others. I think the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child” applies here, except that the child is the web and the raising is being able to gather information. In order to get the most out of the web, we must all work together to share what we know. If we don’t, we will be struggling to keep up with the massive amounts of information. .
I plan to create categories for the areas that I want to grow professionally, ie, SAT Preparation, Math Tutoring, Language Arts Tutoring, Tech News and Innovations. I will create tags for these categories on del.icio.us and subscribe to those tags. My goal will be to incorporate at least one new idea based on what I have learned from the bookmarks of others into my work.
In order to collaborate with others, I will do my own searches in these categories. Knowing that I am helping others will motivate me to create new bookmarks. Because I am home, it is extremely important for me to reach out and collaborate with other professionals. I need to stay current with trends so that when I do return to work in a few years, I am not behind my peers. Social bookmarking with blogs and other websites is crucial to my self-directed professional development.
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Sherry, Its terrific you have decided to take time with your daughter. My wife made the same choice. I know how hard and wonderful it has been for her and our children. Don’t worry about “being left behind”, I get the feeling you would be far ahead of the majority of educators nation-wide.
Institutional education has weathered many movements and “buzzwords”. Listening to the veterans I teach beside; I am challenged when I try something new. It seems the big difference in the present transformation is a change in the way students learn and communicate. The question is: will the technology “immigrants” change their teaching practices and adapt? I know what I hope for my children….
Posted March 31, 2008, 4:30 pm