Social Bookmarking

Students and teachers alike can use social bookmarking to help in the classroom. Teachers can use social bookmarking to provide links for students to look up important information related to classroom projects such as topics for research papers or other unit topics. Students can use social bookmarking to tag links for future use. Students can also look up their classmates’ links to certain topics as well. This way, students can broaden their knowledge base on a certain topic by looking at sites that other students have already accessed.

Social bookmarking would help me, because there are many times that I access information on a computer away from home. I am constantly in need of the websites that I have saved as my “favorites” or bookmarked on my personal home computer. When I’m working on a research paper or other projects away from home, I can now go to my online social bookmarking site and link to pertinent articles and sites from there. Up until now, I have been copying and pasting my links onto a blank Word document and copying that page onto my flash drive that I carry around with me. Another way that social bookmarking can help me is that since tags are used to identify links, I can use the tags to help me link to sites that I’ve saved from previous projects that i may had forgotten about and may be of relevance to my present projects. I chose the site Delicious for my social bookmarking. My address is a follows: http://delicious.com/TDDancy