SocialBookmarks

Social bookmarking is a way to store and share bookmarked web sites online. These services allow you to not only bookmark a website, annotate it, but also see who else and how many others are bookmarking that same site. Additionally, these social bookmarking services have RSS feeds, so that new bookmarks are updated and available in an aggregator. Bookmarks can be organized in categories for easier navigation.

The two most popular of these types of web services are [|Del.icio.us] and [|Furl]. Registering for either of these free services is quick and easy. A teacher, who may not have access to publish bookmarks to a web site could use this free service to gather web resources for student focus. A school site could use this service for gathering subject specific web resources. Students can use this service to gather web resources for a class that uses a pre-determined common tag. A [|local district has a Del.icio.us] account to which all tech leaders are invited to contribute, and is published as a resource.

To learn more about how to use Del.icio.us in education,
 * [| Part 3] of [|RSS - A Four Part Series], by James Gates and Kurt Paccio at the K-12 Online Conference (A video tutorial)
 * [|Del.icio.us Screencast] by Jeff Utecht for the K-12 Online Conference (A video tutorial)
 * [|Let's Play Tag and Do More with Del.ico.us] by Alan Levine from his presentation at the K-12 Online Conference from the [|I Did Not Know You Could Do THAT With Free Web Tools] presentation
 * [|Del.icio.us Guide for Educators] by John Pederson
 * [|Social Bookmarking Tools] wiki by Quentin D’Souza
 * [|Redesigning the Research Assignment] by Lucie deLaBruere at the [|Infinite Thinking Machine] blog
 * [|Collaborative Research Buckets - del.icio.us and Google Notebook] - an outstanding podcast by Wesley Fryer (The first 12 minutes are about using Del.icio.us in Education -The Google Notebook portion is an added bonus!)