Social Bookmarking

Daily we find interesting websites online that can be useful for us or someone we know. It can be a headache to remember all them or save them in organized way and most important; have access to it from anywhere. Here is when bookmarking comes in handy. A Social Bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents (Wikipedia). You can save and organize your web documents by tagging them as you desire and share them with anyone. I used to save my web resources in a word documents and sometimes it takes me a long time to find and specific document. Other thing is that since it is saved in my pc, there’s no way I can access to it if I don’t have my pc on hand. I will definitely use my delicious account for now on. Click to see My Delicious Account.

I like the idea of using bookmarking for sharing web documents with others. I have a few ideas: 1) I often share information with my colleagues, so bookmarking may make things easier for me and for them as well. 2) School districts can share useful information with administrators and teachers and even parents.3) Students could have their bookmarking accounts and create tags for all the subjects they take and share it with peers. 4) I would create tags for different matters or topics in order to share it with other people besides teachers. I think bookmarking can be used in different fields besides education like work place, family and others. I would be nice sharing your bookmarking with friends and coworkers.

Trends & Issues in Instructional Design and Technology reading

Most of time when people ask me what I study and I answer Educational Technology, their first words are: ‘It’s sounds awesome’, ‘that’s nice’ or just ‘what’s that?’ I’m really thankful that I go to read Chapter one about Defining and naming our field because I may explain better what my career is about next time someone asks. I always thought about the improvement of the performance by the use of technology, but never thought about systematic instructional design. Also I didn't know this field had been studied since so long. But it makes sense to me that its definition has been changed so many times, it is understandable. If we read about any field of knowledge, it would be the same story. It’s funny the authors of the books refers to our field as Instructional Design and technology while here at WMU, they refer to it as Educational Technology. I wonder if in the future they may change the name of the career. Although my ideas about the field are clearer now, I think I still need to learn a lot about it and hopefully this course (EDT 5410) will help to do so.