The ‘social’ part refers to the ability to share your bookmarks with others in various ways. For those who don’t know, social bookmarking is basically bookmarking websites (like you may do now in Internet Explorer, where they’re called ‘favorites’ or Firefox), but storing those bookmarks online so you can access them anywhere – not just when you’re at your own personal computer. Many folks have heard of ‘ delicious‘ or ‘social bookmarking’. I’ve embedded the first such video below, though you can always visit the entire Google Reader Help Site on YouTube for more. Post a link to this shared page in Blackboard or elsewhere, and your students will be able to see anything you decide to share.Īccording to a recent CNET article, Google has recently created several ‘how-to’ videos for learning to use Google Reader. What about your students? Do you find articles that you think might be relevant for a particular course? Google Reader will allow you to choose to ‘share’ items you read, and automatically produces a webpage that displays all of your ‘shared’ items. Now, let’s take that idea a step further. With Google Reader, you’ll see every update from that source, without having to actually visit the original webpage again. Here’s the idea: find a blog, news website or other ‘feed’ that you want to follow, and ‘subscribe’ to that source. Though there are many others, Google Reader is one of the most popular and one of the best. ![]() Read a lot of blogs? Want your students to scan news articles, personal blogs and other constantly updated sites? Try using a blog reader. ![]() Faculty who find themselves outgrowing the ‘external links’ page on Blackboard, or constantly emailing new websites and/or web articles to your students, might want to take a look at two technologies created specifically for gathering and sharing web resources: Google Reader and Diigo.
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