Social Bookmarking is a wonderful way of both keeping up with your favorite websites and sharing them with your peers.
Would you believe that social bookmarking has actually been around since April of 1996 when itList launched the ability to save both private and public items?
Social bookmarking has its advantages. Tag-based classification of websites is being done by people who understand the content on the page, as opposed to software (like web-crawlers) that does not know the content within the page but tries to determine the meaning of a particular site. People also tend to tag websites that are often missed by the software systems. It can be much more meaningful to see how many other PEOPLE have tagged a particular site rather than how many other websites are pointing to it to drive traffic.
What websites do you find valuable?? Do you use social bookmarking? I have created a del.icio.us page at http://del.icio.us/wkilgore.
If you have favorites saved on a social networking site that would be useful to other educators please post your social bookmarking page in the comments below!
Here is a manuscript for the episode:
Are you ready for a Social Bookmarking kBURST?
Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages.
There are so many websites of interest that there may be some that we want to save and visit later. We could bookmark or add these sites to our favorites but that only saves them to that one particular machine.
Social Bookmarking is the new way to save those sites for later viewing. These are saved on a website instead of on a particular computer.
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Discover new and relevant materials by creating social bookmarks and share them with your colleagues. Organize your favorite sites with tags. To get started, set up an account at del.icio.us (dot) com and begin tagging and bookmarking your favorite sites today.
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