Delicious, social networking and teaching

Each semester I include a discussion /exercise for experimenting with Delicious as both a bookmarking and social networking site. Students are required to create an account and then tag 20 sites. Since this is a cataloging class the objective is to compare the intellectual process of tagging to subject analysis and then use the cloud tag to compare. Its a great way to introduce students to a non-threatening social network site.

Quiz

I created an assessment tool for my cataloging class using ProProfs quiz maker. It was very easy to create and required that I plan ahead for the types of questions I wanted to ask! I liked that I could time the quiz and select various types of questions.

The things I did not like about Proprofs are:

Inability to give a varied grade.

Inability to force students to answer the question.

Inability to control open ended questions - the entire answer was checked versus part of the whole.

Then I created a survey in Zoomerang which I liked much better for this type of survey!