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I. Overview of Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking (SB) is the practice of saving bookmarks to the public website and tagging them with the keywords. Instead of saving websites to the web browser, one will save them to the web. And, because these bookmarks are online, one can easily share them with friends. One of the interesting features of SB is one can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. As people save and tag websites, a "folksonomy" is created with each individual's marking of the site becoming a sort of vote of popularity. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc. Some services allow users to capture copies of pages, highlight text clips or comment on sites in discussion dialogues.

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II. Social Bookmarking for Teachers
Collaboration between teachers that used to be done in person, in department meetings, or in in-service programs, can now be done using social networking tools. The collaboration can easily go beyond the confines of the school walls by allowing teachers to connect with other teachers from all around the world.  Social bookmarking allows teachers to tag their favorite resources and keep track of their favorite websites. The social bookmarking sites, such as delicious, stores these sites for teachers to access them from any computer provided it has internet access. It also allows teachers to see how many other people have their favorite sites tagged. Teachers can share their favorite tagged sites with other teachers, therefore developing a collective database of the best and most popular resources available.

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III. Social Bookmarking with Students
Students can make use of Delicious or other social bookmarking tools the same way teachers can, moving their favorites or bookmarks from their local computers to the online site for easy access. They can also make use of the tagging and note features to help with specific learning tasks:
 * 1) Vocabulary - Students can create a personal online dictionary of new words. They look up words in dictionary.com, bookmark the definition page, add the definition to the Notes section of Delicious entry apply tags with synonyms. For more information on this idea, see [|Creating Online Dictionaries for Students]
 * 2) Research - Students mark any and all possible online resources they find in a quick search of key terms. They tag these accordingly. Later, they return to Delicious and decide which sources have the most to offer and edit the Notes area to say how each will be used in the research.
 * 3) Group work - Groups of students collaborating on a project creating a unique tag to share resources. Each group or class chooses a special tag the apply to any sites they mark that others in the group can easily locate in Delicious. For more information on this idea, see [|Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 - Some Delicious Ideas]

How might your students use Social Bookmarking in their lives? o Track their own resources o Create Annotated Bibliographies for research projects o See what others have collected on a certain topic/theme/issue (follow a chain of research) Benefits of social bookmarking to students o Social learning opportunity: o Opportunities for students to communicate with each other, demonstrate their expertise, and work together for richer understanding of course materials o Focus student’s engagement o Learner contributes to course materials

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