Awesome+Tech+Tools

=Web 2.0 Tools that I LOVE... for the classroom, for my life outside the classroom, whatever!=

__Co-ment__
[|Co-ment] is a **collaborative annotation** website that I just found out about not too long ago. I used it once when I asked students to collaboratively annotate a [|speech by Mary Fisher], finding and explaining examples of the rhetorical devices we'd just studied. It's pretty easy to use, and the students seemed to like it. The next step was going to be posting their own speeches on there and using co-ment as a way to get feedback from each other (but I had some trouble doing this). You need to create an account to use this tool. //Note: Co-ment is being phased out, but there is a lite version that you can use (you can annotate a single text, whereas I was able to upload several texts to be collaboratively annotated).// media type="custom" key="6306005"

__Delicious__
Delicious is a "**social bookmarking**" tool, and I'm just starting to get the social part of it. I mainly use it to bookmark awesome sites I come across--and the most important reason for me is to have all my **bookmarks centrally located** so I don't have a moment when I think, "Crap, what was that site I found? I bookmarked it at work..." All of my favorite sites (and random stuff) are located in one place, and they are tagged (by me) so I can search them easily. The "social" part comes in when you **share your bookmarks** with people. For example, I have been bookmarking wedding stuff (venues, photographer sites, etc) and sharing those with my fiance so he can see what I've found. I'm also in a network with my old high school English teacher, and I can see what he's bookmarked and add them to my own list. My bookmarks can be found here: [] I briefly experimented with Delicious in class by having them write a mini-**annotated bibliography** (and when I say mini, I mean MINI). We are doing a project around gun violence in Chicago, and I asked them to find a bunch of news articles on the topic. As they bookmarked pages, I asked them to write a brief explanation of what the link went to, almost like what we did in our annotated bibliographies for class (except nowhere NEAR as annoying). What I wanted them to have was a collective list of resources that anyone could use for their research. That list can be found here: [] Delicious is owned by Yahoo! now, so if you have a Yahoo! ID, you can use it.