Digital Literacy 101: Social Bookmarking
The third topic in our Digital Literacy course, social bookmarking, is one that I touched on earlier this year when I wrote about social networking. All Middle School teachers use Delicious, and the seventh grade students now have individual accounts as well. To fully utilize a tool like Delicious, however, requires understanding the concept of social bookmarking. This short clip from CommonCraft provides a nice overview:
As noted in the video, social bookmarking’s three key components are (1) storing bookmarks on the web instead of locally, (2) classifying sites with tags instead of within file folders, and (3) the ability to easily share information with others. As Cyprien Lomas explains in her article 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking, the implications for teaching and learning are powerful:
Information resources with keywords has the potential to change how we store and find information. It may become less important to know and remember where information was found and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework created by and shared with peers and colleagues. Social bookmarking simplifies the distribution of reference lists, bibliographies, papers, and other resources among peers or students.
If you have never tried social bookmarking, I would strongly encourage you to create a Delicious account and start experiencing the benefits for yourself; it really does make bookmarking more useful and fun!
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