Advice to students on using the web
Last night, I ran across this post by Seb Schmoller. In it, he offers 8 suggestions. I think we’ve hit most of these in our class, but Intute (#2) was a new find for me.
Although I frequently use del.icio.us (#5), I haven’t advocated for you to start. You might consider it. Goodness knows, I get a lot of benefit from it with over 1500 tagged sites and counting. What’s del.icio.us all about? This video from The CommonCraft Show explains it:
You can use Google Reader (#7) to subscribe to del.icio.us tags so new resources come into your Google Reader account just like new blog posts do. You can sign up for certain tags or things from certain people or even certain tags from certain people.You can also look at del.icio.us accounts in useful ways. For example, my user name is fiedler. One of the tags I use is med505. If you ever want to see all of the resources I’ve tagged as useful for this class, you can at http://del.icio.us/fiedler/med505/. That gives you four pages! Yikes. Maybe you are only interested in the MED505 tags that deal with writing. That’s as easy as adding a + sign. http://del.icio.us/fiedler/med505+writing/.
Adding del.icio.us to your online toolkit is not required for this class, but I highly recommend you play with it when you have a few free moments. As useful as it is for your life as a student, it will be even more useful for you as a teacher. Don’t believe me? Go back and watch the video if you skipped it.
