The web is massive. When you start to look for information online, very often the first place you turn to are the search engines like Google and Yahoo to give you a list of web pages that will fit what you’re looking for, but sometimes you end up wading though pages and pages of irrelevant results.
Social bookmarking adds the human touch. Just as the internet has millions of pages, so it also has millions of users, and if even a fraction of those users share the sites they’ve found interesting, useful or just plain bizarre with each other, there is suddenly a vast resource for anyone searching the web to tap into.
This commoncraft video explains further
Del.icio.us is one example of Social bookmarking software. Go to their website and create an account.
February 24th, 2008 by karenanderson and tagged Lessons
Welcome back!
Hope you all had a good break. In this lesson we are going to look at improving our learning skills. One of the best lessons you can learn in life is how to teach yourself. I left school at 16 because I was fed up of learning things that didn’t interest me. I personally find it really difficult to sit in a class and listen to someone “talking at me”. I have always found it much easier and a lot faster to teach myself. I did however have a close friend who stayed on at school and went to university. One weekend I went to stay with her and the parties were so good it convinced me to get “A” levels and go myself.
Because I was very motivated I studied “A” levels by getting books out of the library and teaching myself. Just a few months later I passed my exams and went to join my friend in University!
You have so many opportunities to teach yourself today. The hardest thing is knowing what you want to learn. That’s the part that you need to decide for yourself. What do you want to find out more about?
I aim to teach you how to learn.
How to use the help files that are a part of all software packages
How to use the Internet for research
How to showcase whast you have learnt
I hope these lessons have been useful to you. If you have a problem that I can help with, dont be afraid to ask. I may not know the answer but I probably find someone who will.
If you are finding something difficult chances are someone else will have had similar problems and if you are lucky they may have posted on the Internet how they solved them!
February 13th, 2008 by karenanderson and tagged Lessons
Last term we see a Greek play “Antigone”. How much do you remember about the play?
Here is a youtube reminder of the plot
We all really enjoyed watching the play, but did you understand what it was about. It was written a long time ago and the language used is quite difficult to understand. In todays lesson I would like you to use the Internet to find out more about the play, who wrote it, when it was written and what it is about.
