I Furl, Do You?
Another re-post that I thought might be of use to educators!
Coming back to life after a hard drive crash has been yet another painful experience on my technology road. That is not to say that I knew it could happen, odds were for it happening, yes, it has happened to me before...I am already over the files I lost because I didn't do a recent back up...I regret the email I may never reply to because, yes, all that is gone....but the one thing I am thankful for losing are all my favorite URLs that were stored in Internet Explorer!
You don't believe me...it is true because I now FURL instead of using boomarks for favorites that are stuck in a browser on a single computer. FURL has made it
possible for me to share all of my web resources with everyone online. You can visit my FURLed sites.
I have set up categories to contain my urls and can determine if the urls are private, only for my viewing, or public online viewing. It is so easy to FURL new urls with the toolbar button that is linked in my favorite browser. When I find a url that I want to archive, all I do is click the FURL toolbar in my browser . I record a short description for my FURLed url and select the category I would like it referenced in. It is that simple for me to make my urls available to you! Oh, and did I mention that this is FREE!!!!
Now teachers, think of the possibilities!
1. You could publish links for students to activate their prior knowledge about content .
2. Share classroom resources for students and parents.
3. Create a classroom FURL site where students can add resources pertaining to a topic of study.
4. You could use FURL links for supporting your differentiated student tasks with varied level of text.
5. Collaborate with your grade level teaching team to find web resources for content area study so that everyone can contribute and reap the benefits of teamwork!
6. Students are using this outside the classroom:)
7. Create links to virtual manipulatives and other learning tools for students easy access!
8. Try out FURLing and email me with other ideas of how teachers are using FURL for classroom management and student learning activities. I will post them here!!
By the way----check out my Virtual Tools and Manipulatives category to find some useful online tools for students!
Coming back to life after a hard drive crash has been yet another painful experience on my technology road. That is not to say that I knew it could happen, odds were for it happening, yes, it has happened to me before...I am already over the files I lost because I didn't do a recent back up...I regret the email I may never reply to because, yes, all that is gone....but the one thing I am thankful for losing are all my favorite URLs that were stored in Internet Explorer!
You don't believe me...it is true because I now FURL instead of using boomarks for favorites that are stuck in a browser on a single computer. FURL has made it
possible for me to share all of my web resources with everyone online. You can visit my FURLed sites.I have set up categories to contain my urls and can determine if the urls are private, only for my viewing, or public online viewing. It is so easy to FURL new urls with the toolbar button that is linked in my favorite browser. When I find a url that I want to archive, all I do is click the FURL toolbar in my browser . I record a short description for my FURLed url and select the category I would like it referenced in. It is that simple for me to make my urls available to you! Oh, and did I mention that this is FREE!!!!
Now teachers, think of the possibilities!
1. You could publish links for students to activate their prior knowledge about content .
2. Share classroom resources for students and parents.
3. Create a classroom FURL site where students can add resources pertaining to a topic of study.
4. You could use FURL links for supporting your differentiated student tasks with varied level of text.
5. Collaborate with your grade level teaching team to find web resources for content area study so that everyone can contribute and reap the benefits of teamwork!
6. Students are using this outside the classroom:)
7. Create links to virtual manipulatives and other learning tools for students easy access!
8. Try out FURLing and email me with other ideas of how teachers are using FURL for classroom management and student learning activities. I will post them here!!
By the way----check out my Virtual Tools and Manipulatives category to find some useful online tools for students!
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