Social+Bookmarking

**Overview**
Social bookmarking is the habit or practice of saving bookmarks to a web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links.

**Uses of Social Bookmarking in Education**

 * Network with other educators around the globe who share your interests.
 * Create social bookmark accounts for your school's academic departments. Teachers within the department all contribute to the growing database of web resources.
 * Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks.
 * Allow yourself and your students to share bookmarks on research topics.
 * Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites.
 * Collaborate on projects with other schools, sharing bookmarks between all participating communities.

**What Social Bookmarking Does for Students**
When teachers have a collection of course sites as part of a social bookmark group:
 * Gives students a live link to select instead of fumbling through typing a long URL into the address bar.
 * Lets students choose from a variety of acceptable links, making for productive research that still allows for variability.

**Lesson Plans & Ideas**

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**Specific Program Links**

 * [|BuddyMarks]
 * [|Buzka] - Simple to use, organize links using folders
 * [|Del.icio.us]
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|CiteULike] - Scholarly focus
 * [|Edutagger] - K-12 Social Bookmarking
 * [|Jamespot]
 * [|Mister-Wong]
 * [|Scholar] - Blackboard-integrated social bookmarking
 * [|Simpy]
 * [|SNiPiTRON]
 * [|TrailFire.com]
 * [|Zotero] - Firefox plugin, citation manager with social elements

**Blog Resources**

 * [|ALL Social that CAN bookmark]
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**Wikis Resources**

 * Social bookmarking - a beginner's tutorial for educators

Other Web Links
> A VLE course introducing web 2.0 for education. Covering blogs, wikis, photo and video sharing and social networks.
 * [|Network of teachers and edubloggers using del.icio.us], by Claudia Ceraso
 * [|12 Ideas Around Social Bookmarking in Education]
 * [|7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking]
 * [|Using Social Bookmarks and Del.icio.us]by Jeff Utecht
 * [|Teaching Hacks (2006) What Is Social Bookmarking?]
 * [|Using Del.icio.us in Education]
 * [|Training O2] - a social bookmarking site purpose built for adult and vocational education in Australia. An interesting Digg-like approach to social bookmarking that adds commenting and voting to the mix
 * [|JISC RSC NW - Web 2.0 Moodle course]

**Currently featured on del.icio.us**

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 * [|72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons - Icons - Geek Sucks]
 * [|Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking]
 * [|Dropular — Media Bookmarking]
 * [|Top 20 Social Bookmarking Sites | eBizMBA]
 * [|SimplyBox - Think Inside the Box]
 * [|Ajaxonomy del.icio.us Spy]
 * [|social bookmarking for images on vi.sualize.us]
 * [|Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com]
 * [|ShareThis - a website widget for letting visitors share your site using social networking]
 * [|AddThis]
 * [|AddToAny - Share Widgets]
 * [|Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network!]
 * [|Delicious]
 * [|Amplify.com - What Are You Reading?™]