Redesign Research with Social Bookmarking
Redesigning Research With Social Bookmarking Tools
for Vermontfest 2007
Thursday - 9:40 - 10:40 Northstar 2
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Social bookmarking sites such as __del.icio.us__ and Furl are replacing 'favorites' and 'bookmarks' amongst fans of Web 2.0. Understanding the power of these tools will increase your productivity as a teacher; it can also help you redesign assignments in ways that increases and assesses critical thinking skills in your students. Alan November encourages educators to fight increased plagiarism by redesigning the assignment. Social bookmarking tools allow you to do just that.
Based on this blog entry which I posted at InfiniteThinking Machine----

