Also in Managing E-Learning I have been shown the revolutionary new tool of Delicious, which allows you to put all your favourites onto one site! It's a useful website for when you need to go to one of your favourite websites but you are not on your own personal computer. For instance, until I knew about Delicious I had every favourite website in my favourites in the tool on the left hand side of the screen. However, when I wasn't on my own computer and needed to get to one of the websites, it was difficult to find the websites as I didn't know their address. I was so used to just clicking on the link from my favourites that I had not memorised the URL's. Now, with Delicious I can access my favourites from any computer and not have to remember my favourite URL's. This is a great tool for schools also as students can add websites to Delicious when they are researching at school, and then when the go home and continue researching they can add any extra websites to their Delicious page. They can also see who else likes the same pages they do and see what else interests the people that have similar pages to you. Usually you find more pages you like that someone else has and you never knew were out there on the world wide web!!
Here is the link to my own Delicious page with some websites that I have investigated and liked!
http://delicious.com/rebecca.jenner
It is becoming more apparent to me that E-Learning can be a lot more useful at times than not using ICTs in the classroom. However, there are times when ICTs are not as practical. My next blog will focus on where E-Learning is not suitable in the classroom. As a teacher, it is important to use technology in the right context, and know when NOT to use it!
Happy Blogging :)
I agree with everything you said. I found that after I started bookmartking websites on delicious I have been far more efficient while working on the web. It has made it a lot easier to find the important websites on all computers.
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