I had some trouble viewing the links for this exercise. With Discovery Resource #1, when I clicked on the white arrow on the Social Bookmarking in Plain English I got a black screen with the message "This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender's friend request," the YouTube logo in the top left-hand corner and boxes at the bottom with Common Craft's other videos at the bottom. The first video at the bottom, which was Social Bookmarking in Plain English, would not work when it was clicked on. I tried four of the others and they worked fine. I ended up clicking on the link to the Common Craft guys above the original large video box, going to their website, scrolling to the bottom, clicking on "Browse Videos," and finding the Social Bookmarking Video there. Once I clicked on it there, I was able to watch it just fine.
Discovery Resource #2, the Del.icio.us podcast tutorial, when I downloaded the file, it wasn't the tutorial that downloaded. It was some guy talking about something else. So I ended up viewing the podcast video on a very small screen. I used command + to blow up my screen as much as possible, but I still couldn't see it well. I thought the information was excellent, I just wish that I could have viewed the information she presented better. Anybody out there know how to enlarge the screen on a Mac for a full screen view in this situation? Any help is appreciated.
With Discovery Resource #3, when I clicked Furl, I got a Diigo website not Furl. However, it had some great information on it. When I clicked on the link for Ma.gnolia I got Gnolia instead with a long message, the gist of which was "The details: Gnolia will go into read-only mode in a week on September 29, 2010. It will then remain available for bookmark exporting until at least November 30, 2010." I also saw that it was necessary to sign in. I skipped this one. Why even bother going through the site's sign in process or learning about this one when it isn't going to be operational for much longer.
Discovery Resource #4, the Furl tutorial was interesting and informative. F11 didn't work to enlarge my screen to full-screen view. Wonder if that's just for PC's? Anyway, the tutorial was great, really helped me understand how this social bookmarking works. One thing I can say is that I would NOT want anyone to add me as a subscriber to anything so that I would receive daily emails. I prefer to do any subscribing myself.
Discovery Resource #5 connected me with the same site and the same message that I got with Discovery Resource #3.
I checked out the apsu 23 things account in Del.icio.us and actually got into other accounts on the site that were not the 23 things. Navigating from one place to another was a little bit confusing for me and I got lost a few times and had to find my way back. I'm sure that I would get a lot more efficient with practice and learn to use the site to its best advantage.
I've got to say that this is a tool that I am really excited about. I definitely see its potential. When I don't have the rest of the 23 things to explore and blog about, I am definitely going to set up a Del.icio.us account and become proficient and efficient in its use. This will be so helpful to me when I am doing research. It will help me keep organized and quickly find the information that I have already discovered and that I need. As I have done research for my technology class, I've bookmarked dozens of games and resources that I've came across that I was not in immediate need of but which I knew would be helpful in the future. Those bookmarks are a mess. This is the exact tool I need to address that problem.
I absolutely see how this tool could be used in the classroom. It could do the same thing for students that it does for me-organization and quick access to information. It could also allow students to collaborate on research quickly and easily.
Teachers could share and "grow" their list of resources for classroom use by using sites such as Del.icio.us as well as also collaborate on research.
The fact that the bookmarks can be accessed from anywhere is very advantageous as well.
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