Hurrah! We've created our own social bookmarking site. Go to del.icio.us or delicious.com and look for chileteach. All of you in the Chileteach program have the password to get in and make changes. What we have so far is tremendous!
I envision the use of social bookmarking as useful to you in several ways. First, it is a way for us to keep track of the places that we have been to as a group or have found as individuals as we have been learning about language technology together. Second, it is a way for us to stay connected once you return to Chile and can be yet another tool for you to continue to develop your English skills. Finally, social bookmarking itself could be a classroom tool that you use with your students. If the students in your class are learning about... say... mammals... and you all go online (together or separately) and locate good useful websites about mammals, then you can put your list together easily as a class. Also, when students are reading on a website (especially in English!), they will have to understand the key elements of what they are reading--the significance and the details--to be able to create good 'tags' for the bookmark. It's a good reading and writing activity for language learners!
See the article below for more information about tagging and social bookmarking with language learners. It's an 'Emerging Technology' article on the Language Learning and Technology journal website.
http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/pdf/emerging.pdf
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