socialbookmarking

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Social bookmarking involves sharing your bookmarks online by creating a web archive rather than storing bookmarks locally on your computer. Not only can you keep track of what you are bookmarking but you can also see what other web surfers are bookmarking and reading. Most social bookmarking tools allow you to provide additional information with each bookmark through commenting, ratings and tags. You can make your bookmarks private or public and even allow other users to subscribe to your archive of bookmarks. One of the biggest benefits of creating a web archive is that you can save new bookmarks from any computer and have them go to your archive rather than the local computer you might happen to be working on.

**Uses of Social Bookmarking in Education**
Anyone who has taken students to a computer lab and tried to get them to type in the address of a specific site can be a painful process. By using a social bookmarking tool, students need only know the link to your specific archive of sites and then you can have them sort by different tags or keywords to narrow down to the sites you want them to use. For instance, you may have 6 different sites pertaining to the solar system that you have tagged with the term "solar system". Students can easily access those sites from your archive by sorting or filtering by the tagged term. They don't have to try and type out the individual URLs and you end up saving precious time running around from computer to computer getting everyone to the correct site.

Educational Benefits of Social Bookmarking
By providing students access to your pre-screened archive of sites you can better control and manage their online activity. Having students sort through your archive by using different keywords also provides them with guided practice of searching for information online without overwhelming them with the task of having to weed through the entire Internet.

Specific Ideas for using Social Bookmarking in a k-12 Setting
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Specific Links to...
The feed below shows the most recent sites that I have bookmarked. You can subscribe to this feed and also view [|my entire library of bookmarks] to see what other sites I have saved. media type="custom" key="4384393"

**Relevant Online Tools**
The following sites are social bookmarking resources that allow you to create a web archive of your bookmarks or favorite websites.
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|Digg]
 * [|del.icio.us]
 * [|Connetea]
 * [|Mister Wong]
 * [|Netvouz]
 * [|BackFlip]
 * [|MyLinkVault]

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