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 for
classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
