Delicious - Social Bookmarking: Organize and Share your Webpages

According to the Delicious website:

"The Web is a big place, full of new and interesting things to discover. The problem is finding the good stuff and keeping track of it all. This is where Delicious can help.

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you."

Social Bookmarking in Plain English gives great three-minute overview of Delicious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

If you would like to explore my collection of websites - to see if there are any that might be helpful for your teaching, please take look at my account!

My username is MBMorell
and my password is share1

Internet Detective - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

If you would like to better understand how to help students research effectively on the Internet, you might enjoy this resource.  Created in the UK, it was designed for University students, but communicates the issue in such a simple way that I believe much can be used with younger students, and is definitely a great resource for educators:

Internet Detective - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

A few pages teachers might find most interesting:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:

• The good: academic publishing on the Internet
• The bad: time wasting on Internet searches
• The ugly: Internet hoaxes, scams and legends

 

Detective Work:

It can pay to think like a detective:

• Take a case-by-case approach
• Ask questions (who, what, where) and look for clues
• Weigh up the evidence to make a judgement

Keeping on the Right Side of the Law:

Use this section of the tutorial to learn:

• About plagiarism and copyright - why it's not OK to copy from the web
  
• About citation and referencing - why you must acknowledge your sources
  
• How good you are at keeping the right side of the law - a quick quiz!

Best Practices for Fair Use

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education