Social+Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking
[|Diigo] Social bookmarking and web annotation capabilities. Diigo is now an online community for learning people, where information, knowledge and community come together. The new Diigo network creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in the network. [|Del.icio.us] Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet

media type="youtube" key="x66lV7GOcNU" height="344" width="425" Watch the **Social Bookmarking in Plain English** video above from the folks at Common Craft for an introduction to bookmarking and how they work.

Do you see how this can be useful for teachers and students? You can create a tag specifically for each assignment or project and that way everyone can search using that tag in delicious or diigo and share with each other!

Class Tags
In both Diigo and Delicious you can add a class tag, for example WHS1Spring2010 or whatever suits you. Now when the students access the site they can search for the specified tag and can share each other's information. As a teacher you can direct them or have them create their own or if you want to see what they are using for research this is a great tool. Here is a screen shot example:

Group Projects
You can have students use Social Bookmarking as they work together on a project rather than sending loads of emails back and forth and maybe losing some. This makes it easy to put all of your resources together in one place with notes and tags that will work for the project. See the screen shot below of two students bookmarks: