What is a browser add on?
A browser add on are sites that you can place in your tool bar.
Why they are useful.
This allows you locate the sites quickly and efficiently. By adding it to your tool bar you do not have to type in the site's address each time. You are able to locate them by clicking the name of the site and it brings you right to your site.
Give examples, which ones have I used/ are using, and my experience with them?
My school TIS has already added on our School Home Page, Educators Handbook, WVEIS Home page, WVDE Web mail page, and I included the West Virginia Department of Education home page. I use these on a daily basis and are able to access them quickly through my tool bar as add ons. For example with our WVEIS home page; this is used to document and send our students absences every day first period. Mornings are hectic and by having this as an add on reduces time accessing this site. I have only "added on" two sites ever. One being the WVDE home page and the other being the Diigo add on today. They both went smoothly. I am sure that I may possibly run into other that I would not be so lucky.
Which ISTE NETS T standard would this activity most closely matches and why?
I would have to go with Standard 5: Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership. This standard focuses on participating in local and global learning communities to use and apply technology to improve student learning. I feel that this is the purpose of Diigo. This also meets this standard by means of being able to reflect and evaluate current research and professional practice with the incorporation of technological tools to support student learning. Diigo also helps educators be more effective and vital by using the bookmarked sites to reflect and become better teachers.
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