Social Bookmarking is a term used by digital natives to assist with the organization of information found on the web and an easier way to retrieve that information from one location. There are many sites that use this tool to store bookmarks in one location for the user. The most popular tool on the web is Delicious, the second bookmarking website and tool many people may find helpful is Diigo. Two tutorials I found useful on The Read Write Web in Education – an online site, were a video Social Bookmarking in Plain English , by the Common Craft and a slide presentation Social Bookmarking for Educators from jsterns. This tool is a benefit to learners and educators because it allows the individual to gather information from any website and to share it, store it, or tag information for friends or anyone who has access to that website to find some helpful references. Instead of saving all your sites in your favorites tab on your website, having a Delicious account allows you to manage hundreds of sites, turning chaos into order. Your bookmarks are for public viewing for peers or anyone to view. On Delicious you can share or locate new and relevant material you may spend many hours searching for on the web or using Google search. Many websites or Web 2.0 tools have been tagged with keywords to help make searching or browsing a site easier to find.
Retrieved on 11/08/2009,
http://readwriteweb.wikispaces.com/socialbookmarks
http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
http://www.slideshare.net/jstearns/social-bookmarking-for-educators?type=presentation
Image retrieved on 11/08/2009 from
http://edition.englishclub.com/esl-magazine/social-bookmarks/#
Allison, it only took me the entire month, but the title of your blog just hit me. I love it:) Great job on your post.
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