BP4-2009103-Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking 

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Social bookmarking is a good system that helps people organize web surfing. When you want to save a certain website to revisit later, you would bookmark on your computer as “My Favorite.” With this function, you can have a shortcut on your desktop and revisit the site any time as long as you are sitting in front of your computer. But what if you are using a different computer or you lost your laptop, you loose all your bookmarked sites too. Here is a better way. You can bookmark online using a bookmaking site such as Delicious.com. This site allows you to save urls on your Delicious account and open the sites anywhere you go as long as you have an internet access. When you save the urls you want to tag them to sort out their categories. For example, if you found a great website on Perspective, you want to tag the site “perspective” so that you can search the site easily when you open your account. You can tag a site with multiple words too. Another bookmarking site Diigo even allows you highlight and take comments and notes to make the retrieving process easier. (Ebarney2, 2008)

Another great option for this bookmarking system is that you can make a social bookmarking meaning you can share your urls with your friends and co-workers, and even stranger you met on the street. A successful concept for your online marketing has to be regarded in a more comprehensive way and must include the community. (Social Bookmarking, n.d.) As a teacher it is a great way to gather resources and share them with colleagues and other teachers from all over the world. You can even share a good deal of information with your students as well. You can create an account for your department or subject you teach and share with other teachers. This way you can leverage and your researching job can be easier and faster. Students can also collaborate researching using this social bookmarking tool on literally any subjects or projects. As an art teacher I would love to introduce artist’s sites and drawing lessons online with my students so that their learning can extend to their daily life at home. Riddell(2006) also mentioned that power of this bookmarking tagging system as a networking. You can share relevant materials with other people by tagging the site so you can save time surfing the irrelevant materials.

Ebarney2, (Video). (2008, April 8). Social bookmarking: Making the web for you. Youtube, Retrieved October 10, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcecBgRd3ig

Riddell, R. (2006, December 29),Social bookmarking makes its mark in education, Eschool News, Retrieved October 2, 2009, from http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=42069&CFID=23261089&CFTOKEN=30657285

Social bookmarking. (n.d.) Social Bookmark Script. Retrieved October 10, from http://www.social-bookmark-script.com/