Wordpress & Hypothesis
Search Literacy
Search Resources
SEARCH LITERACY
Thinking Critically about Search
Introduction to URLs, Domain Names and Evaluating Web Pages
Bookmark, Store, (Re)collect, Tag and Curate
Social bookmarks are an important part of digital literacy. They help one manage the "Niagara" (Thompson) of texts we encounter. They let us store, tag, annotate and find texts we have read. They can be used for research projects, to leverage “the wisdom of crowds” by following people and groups, or by subscribing to tags.
Why Use Social Bookmarking? http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2673
"Social bookmarking sites allow teachers to create a customized set of Web links for their own purposes or to share with students. In addition to bookmarking, annotating, and tagging, the social functions of these bookmarking services allow users to create a network of persons who can share bookmarks and perhaps contribute to your list. Teachers can build resource collections for classes, professional learning communities can build and share links to websites of interest, and writers working together can create shared sets of resources for their projects. Most services also share these benefits
- Bookmarks can be added to your account easily, often through a direct link to your account that can be added to your Internet browser.
- Because bookmarks are stored online, they can be accessed by teachers and students from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard browser.
- Bookmark collections can be downloaded into a file for formatting and sharing as a publication.
- Users can network to follow each other's bookmark choices."
Introduction to Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking Tools & Teaching Resources
Using Social Bookmarks to Research the Rhetorical Situation
Social bookmarking sites such as diigo, delicious and zotero can be used to search for the bookmarks others have created on authors or research topics. One can search the bookmarks and annotations others have made on authors, and in some cases the bookmarks the authors themselves have created. For example, one can search Clive THompson's bookmarks, https://delicious.com/search/clive,thompson, or look at Clive Thompson's pages on diigo, https://www.diigo.com/user/clivethompson/. Similarly, one can look at Delicious pages by Howard Rheingold, https://delicious.com/hrheingold
One can also look at tags for Clive Thompson on Diigo: https://www.diigo.com/tag/clivethompson
Critical Digital Literacy Links
Annotation
- http://dirtdirectory.org/categories/annotation Evernote Evernote is note-taking software in the cloud, with options for private and shared notebooks. Users can take text notes, and upload files to attach them to notes. Evernote has built-in OCR for images with printed or handwritten text. A premium account allows access to notebooks offline, as well as more storage and embedded PDF search.
Social Reading: Connection to Thompson
Curation, Lifestreaming & Personal Learning Networks
Big Collections of Digital Tools for Scholarly Use
- The DIRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software. http://dirtdirectory.org/
- Digital Writing Workshop collection of tools for writing teachers. "A companion site to Troy's Heinemann books The Digital Writing Workshop and Crafting Digital Writing, this wiki empowers teachers as they learn how to teach digital writing.
- Bill Ferriter's collection of digital tools for students and educators
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