Thing # 19 Web 2.0 list

I really didn't find much that I was interested in. I found some lists I might have been interested in, but found discussions of porno right along with discussions of everything else. Next.

Ma.gnolia.com Social Bookmarking. I am looking for something like this, but not quite this much. They offer the ability to share and discuss my bookmarks. All I want to do is mark a couple of sites for my students. I am not looking for coffee and a danish with a guy in Sacramento!

But, the basic thing, I can use. I establish an account with ma.gnolia and proceed to bookmark sites for my classes and students. Then I have the kids help me bookmark ma.gnolia on student machines. Now when I find an interesting site, I bookmark it in one place, and every machine in my school can find it.

My primary use right now will be game sites, many of which are blocked by the powers that be, wherever and whoever they are. A very free, and effective incentive for my students is the offer of 30 minutes free time on a computer. Good, free, un-blocked sites are not easy to find. My 5th graders can find them, but many of my 2nd graders are getting un structured access to the Internet for the first time. They don't have a clue where they want to go, and waste a lot of their (and my) time just typing the urls.

If I can show them one bookmark with many sites, without having to type it 12 times, I will be happy.

And free time does have educational value. Some of my kids are motivated by the offer of free time. Several have been perfectly happy in pure education sites like Odyssey and Kid Pics. The favorite right now is Scholastic, because of Goosebumps. And that, my friends, is reading.

Aren't I having enough trouble with English and Spanish? Ma.gnolia offers "bookmarklets" These made up words slay me.

By the way, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I just started singing: There's a light...... over at the Frankenstein place. Rocky Horror ruined my brain.

So, yes, this is useful.