BagTheWeb Education Channel

Education has always been a major application focus of the site. With bag’s powerful and easy to use features, teachers can collect teaching materials into bags for students to study and to assign homework. Students can build bags to collect information for their courses and to create projects. Researchers can bag what they discover from the Web and share knowledge with colleagues. Lifelong learners can keep their passion on interesting topics by bagging towards a personal knowledge base.Recently, some teachers and students at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Oak Park, Illinois, started using bags for their reading projects. A group of fifth-grade students were asked to build bags collecting webpage links about social photojournalist Lewis Hine and embed them into their blog pages with a short essay to reply questions on Lewis Hine.

Understanding is important in the process of human learning

“Emerging technologies promote changes in the process of human learning. Social networking tools bring us a new learning environment and rewire our brains. We are excited to add a technology piece to help. It is good to know that even fifth-graders are building and using bags for their studies. Understanding is important in the process of human learning. Our tool is designed to help understand the meaning of information instead of remembering every piece of information,” said Gordon Wu, CEO of BagTheWeb.

The new Education Channel allows users to submit education-related bags and BagTheWeb’s curators will feature them on the channel after review. Also, active educators will be featured there. Via the Education Channel, these contents can reach a broader audience and thus benefit the entire education community.

Audrey J Williams is the Director of Educational Technology Services at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee USA.

At the first part of this article, she described the rise of content curation and the benefits of curation. Then She subsequently introduced the BagTheWeb and another curation tools with screenshot and features.

"With Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy using creating, evaluating, and analyzing as the higher order skills, incorporating curating as a skill within a class allows for a fun and useful means to improve and practice these skills.

New tools such as Bag the Web and Scoop.it allow for a easy to use interface, simple collection via bookmarklets, sharing capabilities within a Desire2Learn course and other public web sites and social aspects to network between other curated collections and curators."

Hi, have you used 'Delicious' http://www.delicious.com/ or Bagtheweb http://bagtheweb.com/. I use these all the time to place my favourite websites in. Delicious is clustered.

'Curate Web content to make your own topic bags. Publish and share your expertise. Bagging is teaching and learning'. (from bag the web).

My favourite to put my favourites in is Bag The Web. There are some great Education Bags out there http://bagtheweb.com/edu.

Go check these out.

My bag is http://bagtheweb.com/u/jennynz/bags. You can have followers, you can follow other bags, people can link to your bag, you can use hashtags a bit like Twitter. You also have a counter on how many people have viewed your bag.

David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. As a blogger, He believe we "curate" the web automatically to help keep things organized and to convey information in as detailed and easy a way as possible. Now, with the addition of dedicated websites, people can curate the web and save information on their own while sharing this vital information with others. He puts BagTheWeb as No.2 in this top ten list. The No.1 is Pinterest.

1.Pinterest
A relatively new site that is growing at a record pace. It's easy to use, ideal for curating the web (by saving/sharing favorite sites), and visually engaging for users. There's lots of potential for education as it is being used by educators everywhere.

2.Bag the Web
Bag the Web is a great site for curating the web into "bags." With their educational portal, teachers and students can share resources, collect information for assignments, embed them into a site, and more.

Yesterday the students had an introduction to our C.O.W.s and learned how to handle them properly, turn them on and off, log into the District website, and my blog. The students will only go to sites that are directly linked to my blog. Today they went to "Bag the Web" from my blog and researched natural resources. They were so excited to use the C.O.W.s they could hardly contain themselves!

If your child can show you how to access "Bag the Web" from home and write down two additional facts about natural resources from the links, they can earn two extra raffle tickets. They should write down their facts on a piece of paper and turn it in to me by Monday, September 26.

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My name is Melissa Corey and I am Library Media Specialist of Benton Library Media Center at Benton High School in St. Joseph, Missouri.

I’ve called it Cardinal TechSource (a name thought of in 5 seconds) and I’ve been emailing the document to staff and uploading it to Issuu.

Here’s this week’s issue, featuring Scoop.it, Embedit.in, and Bag the Web.

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