I have left Harvard as of July 1, 2008 to take a position at NYU. This website has been cached and left static. Feel free to browse my new website, aka "What the heck is a Clinical Associate Professor?"

04.28.07

EdTags

Posted in Education, Web at 12:30 pm by leingang

At the last web pedagogies lunch Michael Hemment told us about Edtags, a social-bookmarking service for educational resources. He’s also blogged about it here.  it seems like a fun tool, and I think like to play with it, but I’m wondering if they’d be upset by the intrusion of an undergraduate educator. :-)

But my main question is this: Why use this instead of del.icio.us?  To me it seems like creating a search engine that focuses on pages about fishing.  You can just add “fishing” to your search query in a real engine like Google and probably get better results.  So why not use the same tags on del.icio.us and benefit from the larger community?

Update: Apparently TeachingHacks recommends just that.

Blogged with Flock

2 Comments

  1. Quentin D'Souza said,

    May 1, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Actually I don’t recommend a particular system. It really depends on where you feel most comfortable and what your purpose is for using a social bookmarking service.

    My own preference has been delicious because my social network is there, and I can draw out what they are reviewing, and I know that some of our interests are the same.

    http://del.icio.us/qdsouza

    My Network is here: http://del.icio.us/network/qdsouza

  2. leingang said,

    May 1, 2007 at 9:25 am

    I see what you mean. I think I’m comfortable with the larger network, so I’m going to keep using that.