Are you having problems keep up with your favorite sites? I have something I need to share with you. Have you ever heard of the term Delicious? I am not talking about a delicious meal. Delicious is a term used for social bookmarking. Yes, Delicious is here to make keeping up with your favorite sites and research information easy for you.
"The era of social bookmarking started with del.icio.us. Del.icio.us started the advent of social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a way to store you favorite bookmarks on line and share them with others on the web" (Iskoid, 2008).
Del.icio.us social bookmarking does all the work for you. This service will categorize and group items for you. As an educator, I find this tool very handy because I can share sites with my colleagues, parents and students without trying to remember where I saw that particular activity.
"Social bookmarking is one of the "newest things" sweeping the Internet. Del.icio.us has made its mark as being one of the largest social bookmarking sites. This site services is aimed toward specific groups of people one of the groups is educators" (Hedreen,2005). As an educator, I see a great need for social bookmarking and how it can be beneficial not only for me, but for other educators as well. This type of bookmarking will allow you to collaborate with others in your building or in the system when it comes to sharing. When someone asks you where you got an activity from and you say you will email it, but never get around to it. Using social bookmarking will allow someone to go into you bookmarks and find items of interest to him or her.
Social bookmarking is used not only in education but in the business arena as well. Using this tool in the classroom is a great help when your students are working on research. When the teacher's assignment requires Internet search, students have to juggle so many websites and with social bookmarking, they can organize and share their work and so on.
References
Iskoid, Alex, Read Write Web, The Social Bookmarking Faeoff, September 18, 2008 retrieved on Nov.
08,2009 from, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive/social_bookmarking-faceoff.php
Hedreen, Rebecca, Frequently Answered Questions, Social Bookmarking in Education. Thursday, February
03, 2005 retrieved on November 8, 2009 from, http://www.frequanq.blogspot.com/2005/02/social-
bookmarking-in-education.html
Social bookmarking tools, What is Social Bookmarking, retrieved on Nov. 08, 2009 from Wiki.
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