BP4-20091010_Social_Bookmarking

"I believe these applications represent an exciting sea change for educators, researchers, and pupils. A globally accessible, flexible organizational system for multimedia content that organizes content in ways that make sense to both the creators and end users seems to combine the best of both World Wide Webs--1.0 and 2.0." (Riddell, 2006)

I found the social bookmarking of Del.icio.us to very helpful. Broitman (2009) stated "I’ve always been an avid researcher and Delicious allows me to discover, save, organize and share information that I find online like no other service." I agree, the ability to share links with classmates and critical friends is great. To retrieve your bookmarks on any computer at anytime, is not new for me AOL allowed you to use your bookmarks from anywhere just by logging in. However, the tagging and sharing is the advantage. With tagging I no longer have to create folders and sub-folders trying to remember what sites are among the hundreds of sites stored. Sharing allows me to find sites with a little help from my friends and networks. As a teacher I am able to share links with my students allowing for guided research and for them to share their site finding among one another.

Instead of individually saving the site in a variety of folders, you just type a few keywords called tags (Langston Hughes, alliteration, Black History, metaphor, rubric, and so on.), and your sites are organized automatically with sites saved by other users, using those same keywords. You even can see a list of your saved bookmarks, not just by alphabetical order, but also by how often you use a given tag.
(Jackson, 2009)

References

Broitman, R. (June 2, 2009). Ultimate guide to delicious social bookmarking. Interactive Insights Group. Retrieved October 9, 2009, from http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/ultimate-guide-to-delicious-social-bookmarking/

Jackson, L. (June 5, 2009). Sites to see: Social bookmarking. Education World. Retrieved October 8, 2009, from http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

Riddell, R. (December 29, 2006). Social bookmarking makes its mark in education. eSchool News. Retrieved October 8, 2009, from http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=42069&CFID=13714052&CFTOKEN=85658531