BP#8_20091108_Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a necessary organizational tool for anyone who is interactive on the Web. As one expands and extends his or her knowledge and resource base information such as articles, sites, blogs, etc. must be catalogued in an efficient manner. Tagging allows the data to be stored in the proper categories for further reference. The “social” component to the bookmarking function is the ability to share data with others who may have that same interest. (Brockenberry, 2009)
Social bookmarking is a collaborative tool whose time has come. I can’t tell how many times when researching a topic I’ve pondered over how many others have gone through the same process on the same subject that I am going through right now and wondered if some place on the Internet is a storage place that contains all the specific links that I have been researching but has been saved by someone else doing the same research, this is just one of the problems that social bookmarking addresses in the way that you can tag and store links and access them from any computer. This ability to have remote access to research opens up a world of possibilities. Social Bookmarking allows a researcher to access the links of other researchers through the tag labels that have been placed on their links. Educators can network with other educators who teach the same subject matter and share link resources to help further their subject knowledge base. Academic departments can create their subject database making a virtual reference library. Students can collaborate with other students sharing research information and developing a research project through that collaboration.

References

Brockenberry (2009 July 19) Educational uses for social bookmarking
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Jackson, L (2009, June 5). Sites to see: social bookmarking. Retrieved November 8, 2009 from Education-world website: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

Link to Classroom 2.0 social network discussions. (2009, April 17) In Wiki classroom20