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Social Bookmarking. By Rachel Campbell Lindsay Coulter Teresa Figueroa Lauren Reyes. Many of us bookmark websites that we find while we surf the web. Typically, we save these websites to our hard drive as Favorites in Internet Explorer
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Social Bookmarking By Rachel Campbell Lindsay Coulter Teresa Figueroa Lauren Reyes
Many of us bookmark websites that we find while we surf the web. Typically, we save these websites to our hard drive as Favorites in Internet Explorer • It can be beneficial if one wishes to use their bookmarks at multiple computers (office, classroom, home) or one wishes to share their bookmarks with others
Social bookmarking using Delicious (http://del.icio.us) provides a powerful tool for storing and organizing one’s bookmarks of web pages and sharing those bookmarks with others
How to sign up: 1. Go to (http://del.icio.us) 2. Click on GET STARTED. 3. Enter details. 4. Install Buttons.
A combination of… • Web Bookmarks • Social networking
The Difference… • Can be accessed anywhere • Designed to share websites
Features • Tag • Link roll • Link rolls may be anonymous
Allows teachers and students to share bookmarks on research topics • Trying to get information about a certain topic together to prepare a lesson or unit plan
Grade-level teacher teams can collaboratively find and share resources • Student project teams can work together to locate sites needed for their assignment
Network with other educators around the globe who shares your interests. • Create social bookmark accounts for your schools academic departments. • Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks.
Simplifications • Computer to computer access • even on public computers and computers that are not yours • Share your bookmarks with friends or group members • CTEL has tons of group work, and this makes it easy to share bookmarks • Provides link so people have less trouble finding the sites
Have bookmarks sent to you • Group members can return the favor of research and useful bookmarks • “Google” interesting bookmarks on a specific topic • Find the top used bookmarks on specific topics
References Farkas, Meredith.(2008 April) Isn’t it Delicious? Retrieved American Libraries, 39(4), 32-32. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database. Riddell, Roger. Social Bookmarking makes its mark in education. eSchoolNews. Retrieved September 7, 2008. http://www.eschoonews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm Web2.0. Social Bookmarks. Retrieved September 7, 2008. http://web2tutorial.wikispaces.com/social_bookmarks Whatwood, Britt. Instructional Uses of Bookmarking: Reflections and Questions. Retrieved October 12, 2008. http://www.ris.uvt.ro/Publications/Decembrie%202007/Watwood.pdf