Social Bookmarking

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a great tool for not only educators but for everyone to share important web sites and information. Teachers can use social bookmarking to share bookmarks with other teachers, parents, and students. Teachers can even create social bookmarks on the specific subject or subjects they teach. Richardson (2010) explains, “Social bookmarking sites like Diigo.com and Delicious.com allow teachers and students to build subject-specific resource lists that they can easily share” (Richardson, 2010, p, 10).Also, many social bookmarking sites are free and easy to use. Access to these social bookmarking sites is constant and provides a place for educators and the public to store important information at a click of the mouse. Through other doctorate students and professors at Wilkes, I have acquired many bookmarks that I otherwise would not have known about. Social bookmarking may be an easy opportunity to get many educators, who do not normally maximize technology use in their personal or professional life, to turn onto using the new web technologies available today. References:Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools forclassrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Posted by Bethany June at 10:44 AM


4 comments:

gpattisoned614 said...
Bethany,This is the first time that I have had the opportunity to create a social bookmarking page. I can't wait to share this with my mathematics department. We always talk about sharing resources. This is a great way to do it. Have you shared your site with other teachers at your school?
October 12, 2010 3:43 PM

Darlene Kellner said...
Bethany,I have also found this doctoral program to be a wealth of information. I believe in today's society, that wealth of information can be overwhelming. Social bookmarking sites make it possible to organize the information so it is not so overwhelming and also easy to share. How do you plan on getting the educators who do not normally maximize technology use to utilize this tool?
October 14, 2010 8:51 PM

Bethany June said...
Gayle,Unfortunately, I have not shared my bookmarks with other teachers in my school district. I do think that social bookmarking has the potential to be a great resource for educators. Since many of the teachers in my school district still do not have access to technology, sharing something like social bookmarking is a challenge. To accommodate the lack of technology in my district, I will need to send both a mass email about social bookmarking as well as a paper memo to teacher mail boxes. Bethany
October 16, 2010 7:27 PM

Bethany June said...
Darlene,Social bookmarking is an example of a web technology that is convenient and easy to use. Once educators realize how easy and valuable this one web tool is they may be encouraged to try out other web tools. In my situation, I would verbally tell other educators in my district about social bookmarking, send informational emails out on the topic, send a paper memo out to all teachers, and give a presentation about social bookmarking on an in-service day if possible. I would also encourage head teachers in the four elementary buildings to discuss social bookmarking with the teachers at the school where they work. Bethany