Why use social bookmarking?

October 31, 2013

In the last posting, Diigo was presented as a possible social bookmarking tool. In order to effectively be able to bookmark and later on search for your resouces, it is important to use sensible “tags” that relate to your IB Diploma program and to the...

How will your ITGS extended essay be marked?

Most students do not understand how the assessment criteria are applied to their extended essay nor how they can achieve top marks. The single most important factor in creating a successful extended essay is the research question. It must be a question that leads to a...

Social Bookmarking for ITGS

September 29, 2013

What is social bookmarking? A social bookmarking is the act of using an online service to add, edit, annotate and share bookmarks that have been tagged for webpages and web documents. The actual technique for social bookmarking using Diigo is presented on Expanding...

Bookmarking DP Sources

September 28, 2013

The web is an invaluable resource of expertise and information for your DP programme: The 6 subjects in your DP Programme Theory of Knowledge CAS (Creativity Action Service) Extended Essay However, in order to keep track of the resources that you find throughout your...

Mindset for ITGS

August 25, 2013

ITGS is not like any other IB subject nor any other IT subject for that matter. It is unique in that the approach to all aspects of ITGS integrates “four” components in the way ITGS is studied and assessed. Not all parts may be addressed equally all the...

Expanding your web

Over on the Teacher side of this blog series, you’ll find a post by Barbara Stefanics with the same title as this one:  Expanding Your Web. We’ll be writing on both “sides” of this blog, for Teachers and for Students, about situations and...