Since I am new to posting to my blog I was not worried about tagging my writings to reflect the information in my blog for others to read if they wanted. I signed up for Technorati but have not seen any of my posts so far but I was searching their site and found other sites to review.
It is hard to search for noteworthy information at times. Some sites hit the mark with information and then others have not posted in a while. Blogging is great at times but it seems to me that everyone is starting to do it and then how do I tailor the search to limit what I see and then how relevant is it to my project?
For example, I searched for "middle school library" or "middle school libraries" and came up with a lot of blogs. Out of the hundreds that appeared only two gave me information that I could use to help my library. How many hours did I spend on this . . . 3.5!
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Showing posts with label tagging. Show all posts
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Thing #13--Learning about tagging and discovering Del.icio.us and other bookmarking sites
Unfortunately, Del.icio.us is blocked through our Intermediate Unit for our viewing at our school. This was horrible because my Library Resources page on my website was getting too long and the sites I had listed there for others to use were wreaking havoc on code and not displaying correctly.
I searched a lot of bookmarking websites to see if I could have one place where my students could go for my resources and found mister-wong (http://www.mister-wong.com/user/jgpotts/). I love the fact that the students can use a tag cloud to locate terms that they would like to search for. Before they would have to click a few items to get to what they wanted but now they can either click on the cloud or go to my bookmarks and type in the title. So far, this has not been filtered out at our school. Mister-Wong is very easy to use and the tech people get back to you ASAP.
I add sites to my favorites but I also add them to mister-wong. Or, you can upload all at one time, weekly, monthly, etc...
I love it.
I searched a lot of bookmarking websites to see if I could have one place where my students could go for my resources and found mister-wong (http://www.mister-wong.com/user/jgpotts/). I love the fact that the students can use a tag cloud to locate terms that they would like to search for. Before they would have to click a few items to get to what they wanted but now they can either click on the cloud or go to my bookmarks and type in the title. So far, this has not been filtered out at our school. Mister-Wong is very easy to use and the tech people get back to you ASAP.
I add sites to my favorites but I also add them to mister-wong. Or, you can upload all at one time, weekly, monthly, etc...
I love it.
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