Social Bookmarking

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Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning Jennifer Verschoor  &  Evelyn Izquierdo April 3, 2009

What is social bookmarking? : 

What is social bookmarking? Social Bookmarking is a new Web 2.0 technology that allows Internet users to read, store, classify, rate, comment on, organize by topic or category, mark by using tags and share with virtual communities or individuals with common interests search links to any Website.

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Tagging   87% are successful 92% of search engine                                     confident in their  searching ability                                                                      17% of search engine users say they always   find the information  they are looking for                                                                  Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project report entitled "Search Engine Users":://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Tagging+to+help+Teachers

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Folksonomy

Popular bookmarking services : 

Popular bookmarking services

The most popular : 

The most popular Delicious                                                           Diigo                                                           StumbleUpon   Edutagger       Reddit                                                                Mixx

How do social bookmarks work? : 

How do social bookmarks work? Look at the following video about Delicious:

Delicious : 

Delicious

Delicious : 

Delicious Link to Web site                                    Bookmark number      Description or notes Tags

What does Delicious offer to educators? : 

What does Delicious offer to educators? Delicious allows us to:    save and store all our bookmarks online and keep them in one place. get to them from any computer, anywhere, anytime. It's like carrying our 'Favorites' with us. see what other teachers or students are bookmarking. know about the most popular bookmarks being saved in the educational field. share them with other colleagues and students. keep track of our entire bookmark collection. organize and classify our favorite sites by using tags. have access to online teaching resources for classes, lectures or presentations.

StumbleUpon : 

StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.  (Wikipedia, 2009)

What does StumbleUpon offer to educators? : 

What does StumbleUpon offer to educators? StumbleUpon allows us to bookmark:   Articles, online books and any other Website related to education Blogs Photos Videos

Reddit : 

Reddit Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links down or up, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.  (Wikipedia, 2009)

Mixx : 

Mixx Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.

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Diigo What How

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Highlight & Share the Web

Diigo : 

Diigo http://www.diigo.com/

Collaborative Research : 

Collaborative Research Ideal for team research Organize resources using group bookmarks Sticky notes are great for discussion

Diigo  Groups : 

Diigo  Groups http://groups.diigo.com/groups/edn

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Educational Benefits

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Advantages Instant traffic Easier to find information Organizing and classifying reading resources  Sharing and learning    Allows people with similar interests to create communities of users and thus influence resource tags.

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Integrating Social Bookmarks means opening our classroom door to the world

Resources : 

Resources Further readings:   What is Reddit and how can I use it to promote and market my blog posts? Advantage of Social Bookmarking   Videos:   Social bookmarking: Making the Web work for you Social bookmarking    Images: What is social bookmarking? http://www.flickr.com/photos/25577119@N04/3107789751/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfthemind-com/161406818/http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/274041826/ folksonomieshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/girlhula/2848879655/ sharinghttp://www.flickr.com/search/?q=diigo&page=3 diigo highlighter

Thank you very much! : 

Thank you very much! Evelyn Izquierdo evelyn.izquierdo@gmail.com   Jennifer Verschoor jenverschoor@gmail.com