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Pourquoi tant d'enseignants utilisent Pearltrees? Depuis que j’édite ce blog, je reçois régulièrement des notifications m’indiquant que des articles sont ajoutés à tel ou tel compte Pearltrees.

Pourquoi tant d'enseignants utilisent Pearltrees?

Je parcours souvent ces comptes et force est de constater que de nombreux enseignants utilisent cet outil ! Mais d’où vient donc un tel intérêt pour ce service de « social bookmarking »? Ali at the Top of the World. At first I thought, “Great, another site to sign up for!”

Ali at the Top of the World

Boy was I wrong. This site is great. I have to admit I was lost at first but once I got the hang of working the site I was hooked. This is like a virtual concept map of bookmarks. You have a capability of mapping out whatever you want. Distributed Concept Mapping with Pearltrees at Colin's Sandbox. A couple mal-aligned stars prevented me until this afternoon from really giving this week’s material much more than a cursory glance.

Distributed Concept Mapping with Pearltrees at Colin's Sandbox

I spent the early portion of this week with my wife (a teacher on spring break) and family, and then in a frenzied flurry of activity this past weekend fulfilling requirements for the Digital Storytelling class. Also, as a quirk of my personality, when I see a lesson is devoted entirely to using a particular tool (in this case, Pearltrees) rather than an overarching purpose / concept for which to use said tool, I tend to give it short shrift.