Organizing Yourself Online (Extra)

I think it is important for us as teachers to be organized in the classroom. It will make life a whole lot easier, especially in our first year as teachers. It will make our jobs more efficient and less stressful. Just as we are organized in our classroom, I think it will be important for us as teachers to also be organized on line. How often do we not come across a neat resource on-line or a cool website that we really like but fail to write it down or tag it and then forget where we found it the next day? I know I have often done this and it drives me crazy!

To be honest, I can't say that I am very organized when it comes to the things I do on-line. I started using an RRS feeder to keep track of all the blogs that I follow. I haven't used it all too much but I think it is helpful to know which blogs I have looked at and which ones I haven't. And it also helps me to see what is new!

I really like the idea of using Symbaloo as an organizational tool.

symbaloo.com

 It is a place where you can bookmark your favourite sites and a whole lot more. You can use it for creating units and the resources to go along with them. You can also use it to just plainly keep track of all the websites that you have visited and really like. I keep track in my agenda of all the sites that I like (not as efficient or effective as symbaloo might be). Another really neat tool I use to organize myself if Pearltrees. Pearltrees in a social library where you can organize, collect, and cultivate interests. I think using tools like symbaloo and pearltrees would be difficult to use with primary grades but I would definitely use this with higher grade and begin to teach them how to organize themselves on-line. I think it will beneficial for them to have these skills when it comes to high school, university as well as later on in their careers to be organized individuals on-line.

pearltrees.com