To start off, I have to say the MAPping activity was a very eye opening experience. After searching the specific websites provided, I was surprised to find out that they were probably as not as reliable as I would have originally thought they were. After looking out the different criteria that I "should" be looking at and the criteria that I have usually referred to in the past, I realize now I have been researching things all wrong. I now know that I will be using the references provided by the November learning site. I will now be looking at who is publishing the information and what their purpose is for providing such information. Before today I did what most people probably do, I picked a resource that looked credible, but probably was not. One thing I know that will be easy for me to do is to look at the extension to see what type of web address it is. I have done this occasionally in the past, but not as often as I probably should have. I am actually a little disappointed in myself for using many of the resources before in my professional career, and being so trust worthy about the information that is out there. I didn't realize that there were so many sites that would rather give opinions or one sided pieces of information than actually providing facts. I think that if this type of information is not conveyed to our students and children for that matter they will be as ignorant as I have been in believing everything that they read. They will end up trusting an opinion instead of facts, and in the end they will be projecting someone else's opinions and thoughts instead of coming up with their own thoughts, ideas, beliefs and opinions.
Now on with my thoughts about Delicious. I don't really know what to think about this. At first I was not completely on board with the idea, as I am usually not with any "new to me" technology idea. As I am explaining the activity and the project to my husband he made me stop and think about the pros to it, not just the cons, as I am such a pessimist sometimes. I do see that this could be very beneficial in my career. I could share and find ideas by networking with other people on this site. I would be able to find resources that I might not have been able to find on my own that could help me in career. I do see that this could help both personally and professionally. In looking at the other sites I felt as if Blinklist was the exact same as Delicious so I really saw no difference in using one site over the other. Diigo seemed to be a little more advanced than delicious, probably appealing to the more technology savvy person, who wants to use many different types of applications. Toobla seemed to be more for the person that is going to use the site for more entertainment type purposes. If I wanted to share music, videos, pictures, etc. this would more likely be the site I would use. Finally, there is Stumble Upon. After briefly looking at this site and what it was about, as I did not initially want to sign up for anymore sites, worried that I would not remember what they were all for, I thought that it looked rather interesting. It seemed that this one would be good for someone like me who is always trying to find new teaching resources. So if I went on and bookmarked my sites that I often use, teacher resources for example, it would then come back and provide me with more sites of teacher resources because that is one of my main interest. I found this idea to be very useful, so I think I will sign up for yet another site...we'll see how it goes!
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