The bookmarking Web tools are great for saving bookmarks. You no longer have to worry about losing your favorite sites to computer problems. You can also share the bookmarks with the public or a group. Tags provide a logical process for organizing the bookmarks for easy retrieval during searches.
Bookmarking Web sites are great for gathering current information about topics relevant to coursework and providing it to the students in an efficient manner. As a choral or band director I can see it would be very useful for providing my student with music resources concerning music theory, music history and applied music instruction.
Personally, I don't like to share my information with anyone. I find it to be an intrusion to my privacy and the privacy of the students. I will not publish my lesson plans, grade books or any information about my children because it is a violation of the Family Education Rights to Privacy Act. The Web 2.0 tools provide the untalented, unskilled teacher with other people's work free of charge. Some of the tools are nice but most of it just increases the work load and takes up too much time. Not all of it is bad. It just cluttered up my computer with unnecessary junk, Trojan horses, ad ware, and malicious code. I love the news but, I have my limits.
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