SOCIAL+BOOKMARKING

What is it?
Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and "tagging" them with keywords. To create a collection of social bookmarks, register with a social bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or private. ** How can you use Bookmarking in education? ** 1. Unintended learning through the discovery of resources and information shared by others through their bookmarks.

2. Share links to current news items that relate to classroom discussions.

3. Share one [|delicious], [|connotea], or [|diigo], or other social bookmarking account between a large number of educators across a school district that teach in diverse settings in order to create a broad and deep set of resources.

** How to Social Bookmark in three easy steps... ** (1) Register at their website and login.

(2) When you happen on a website you want to bookmark, just click a "bookmark" button that gets added to your toolbar.

(3) Go back to your account page at your leisure to access your list and see what other people have also bookmarked.

(3a) Or, to make the process //even// easier, some websites have "one-click bookmarks," that let you bookmark a page with just one-click.



To learn more about this topic watch this video!!

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