Social Bookmarking

I knew nothing about social bookmarking before this assignment, so I had to read and research a lot to get an idea about what it was, to watch the video ‘social bookmarking in plain English’ helped a lot because is clear, simple and consist. That video shows what you need know about social bookmarking in just couple of minutes.

Now that I know what is social bookmarking for, I can tell the great value this has, not just for sharing your favorite web page addresses with other, but it is also very important as a place to store your bookmarks online.  Social bookmarking is a very useful tool when you have to work in other computer that is not yours. Before knowing about social bookmarking I used to send my web addresses to my e-mail, but that is extremely uncomfortable. You can also keep saved your information in case of lose your data base. Last year my laptop stopped working and I had to buy a new one, so I lost all my bookmarks.  But now I know the way to keep them safe.

I think that social bookmarking can be used for the teachers to share interesting information with students, pages with content related to the assignments or important articles for students’ learning or just to socialize sharing common interests. On the other hand I think that this tool is not very appropriate for K-12 students because their level of interest when investigating and being autonomous is not the same as the more mature students.

Here is my Delicious: https://delicious.com/ilainnafulgenci

Trends & Issues Instructional Design and Technology:

            I did not know they were struggling so hard to have a definition of our field, and I didn’t know we have so many different definitions, so it was a surprise to find out this. My biggest surprise was the discovery that the field of educational technology is also called Instructional Design and Technology, it was a surprise because I realized that I like that term more than the term we use now, because it imply the word: design and I believe that the EDT have a lot to do with the design.

            It was a bit shocking to realize that the book's authors are right when they say that many professionals in the area of educational technology are not able to clearly describe their field to others. And it was more shocking to realize that I'm also struggling to have a clear definition. For me the EDT field is related with media, technology devices and computers, but the field is so much more than that. As the authors say ‘the field of instructional design and technology (also known as instructional technology) compares the analysis of learning and performance problems, and the design, development, implementation, evaluation and management of instructional and non-instructional processes… (p.5). I agreed with their definition because involved more than just tech and describes very good our field, I also like the term IDT more than EDT.