Social Bookmarking, StumbleUpon, and Tumblr

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Bookmarking Browser bookmarking: saving links to important pages so they may be revisited RSS bookmarking: Subscribing to pages and receiving notifications on updates. You can also browse tags.

StumbleUpon A discovery engine that uses your interests and preferences to search the internet The website makes use of peer-sourcing and social networking principles in order to bring you websites that you’d never see otherwise

Tumblr Personalized feed based off RSS subscriptions to blogs Allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog Reblogging material allows users to share their interests without having to create all their own material. People share and form connections through this, only leading to more connections

Tumblr Expectations

Teacher’s Tumblr Blog Use -Post relevant sources to a unit -Provide feedback to student resource gathering -Multimedia assignments -Finding and sharing contemporary poetry and literature -Finding lesson plans Ice Breaker Lesson -Lesson on content credibility

Student Use -Outlet for creativity and individuality -Gather resources and share them amongst a class easily -Outlet for creativity and individuality -Produce multimedia posts -Develop confidence in individual work -Write, read, and share poetry of literature

Bloom’s Taxonomy Tumblr addresses multiple layers of Bloom’s taxonomy: Remembering- users can “like” posts and these posts are saved to the blog Analysis: Tumblr users can use tags to make their posts available to their audience or use them to search for new information Creation: Tumblr is one of the most customizable social media. People who are knowledgeable in code can customize the background image, layout, and even the cursor image

Learner-Centered Tumblr presents an interesting opportunity for students to shape their own feed, fully addressing their interests. The student modifies their feed based on their own interests giving them the opportunity to further develop those interests. The teachers can look at these individualized interests by looking at what the student reblogs, and the teacher can passively learn more about the student. StumbleUpon lends itself nicely to the learner’s interest and readiness as it is nearly impossible to lose interest while stumbling. When the user becomes tired of the page that they are currently on they can simply “Stumble” again, or change their “interest” search parameters. THE RESULTS ARE INFINITE!

Assessment-Centered Formative assessments can been given both publicly and privately through messaging. A teacher can view a student’s blog and see what resources they have gathered as well as the original ideas they post. As a summative assessment, some teachers have some sort of multimedia project and post it to Tumblr, and part of the assignment is to observe how it can travel through the internet, using the whole class to reblog and spread it around.

Knowledge-Centered Knowledge-Centered presents the most challenges to using Tumblr as a learning medium. In a knowledge centered environment it is clear what the desired goals of a lesson are and students are focused on this goal. Because tumblr can be personalized in such unique ways, it may be hard to narrow the focus of a student’s blog to the specific subject of study.

Community-Centered On Tumblr, users can create blogs that post and reblog material world news and social issues in an educational manner. Users work together to raise awareness for the news or issue by increasing the amount of notes that the post has. These communities can be extremely focused based on interests, or people even become friends through symbiotic following. Similarly, StumbleUpon is filled with articles and news on sociology and worldly happenings/discoveries. With the website’s simple method of bookmarking, one could make a file just for topics on community, and have those pages saved for future reference.

Common Core Standards • R.CCR.7 - Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. • W.CCR.8 – Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. • W.CCR.6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. • SL.CCR.5 - Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

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