Social Bookmarking and Excel

Social bookmarking is a great advance in technology. It makes everything so much easier. Social bookmarking can be used to help students and teachers, because teachers can bookmark something that he/she wants the students to read and does not have to worry about having to send every student the website. All the students would have to do is go to the teachers page and look and see what websites he/she has tagged. This technology can also help a teacher, by allowing he/she to see websites that the students are finding on their own and bookmarking. It could be made into a homework assignment, and the teacher can follow up by becoming followers of the students and checking and seeing what they are bookmarking and making sure they stay on task. Social bookmarking helped me because it makes everything so much easier. If I want to bookmark something I click the Diigolet tab on my toolbar and it automatically will place it on my list of bookmarks. Also if I am trying to research something I need to only type in a keyword and many different sites will come up that other people have found that has the keyword tagged by it. This makes research much easier and I definitely will use it.

Excel is a great program to use when it comes to organization and can also be used in order to conduct fun activities. One option that the students can use excel for is to setup their schedule on it. They can make it so that the tests and quiz dates are underneath each class tab so that they will not fall behind. Next, the teacher can do use excel to conduct lessons, because there are different graphics that allows for the teacher to make different boxes and arrows that makes the lesson more visually fun. Excel could be used in history class, because there is a way to do hierarchy tables which would be a great way to teach them how many people felt when it came to race and gender in years past. There are ways to use Excel to make graphs that form circles with arrows which would allow for the teacher to teach that every action has a chain reaction. Excel would help because the students would be able to visually see what the teacher meant, and also could put in items they wanted. Finally, there is one that looks almost like an a template when it comes to creating a picture of the molecules of an element. It could be used in science class to show the students what the elements are made of.