Social+Bookmarking

=Social Bookmarking...what is it? =

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Here are some examples of social bookmarking websites:

Delicious Delicious is a social bookmarking website. You can save bookmarks to the website--much nicer than just saving them in your Bookmarks or My Favorites on your computer because on Delicious, they are available as long as you have an Internet connection. I love this site...however, I received a message that Yahoo! (the company that owes Delicious) will be phasing it out in the next year... :(

Diigo I have now made the switch to Diigo in fear that Delicious is on its way out. It is really convenient in that you can download the web browser add-on for Diigo...I simply click on the Bookmark tool...you can click on it a second time to add tags, to send it via e-mail to someone else, or to add it to the any one of your groups. You can also sign up for an Educator account to access additional educator- and student-friendly features. I signed up for an Educator account. That allows me to join the "Diigo in Education" group--I receive daily updates in my e-mail inbox--those updates include various website other educators have bookmarked. I have discovered NUMEROUS resources from this group!!! I have also set up groups so that I can pass these resources along. Simply create a Diigo account...search for DC West in the groups--there is a general technology/resource group, a group for each curricular area, and one for the elementary. I believe you can set the frequency of updates from each group--from immediately to never. Here are links for each of the groups I have established: DC West Technology Tools DC West Elementary Tools & Resources DC West CTE Tools (for Career & Technical Education--especially for Business and Guidance) DC West Health & PE Tools DC West Industrial Technology Tools DC West Language Arts Tools DC West Music Tools DC West Science Tools DC West Social Studies Tools

Digg Digg is another social bookmarking site. It is pretty much like the others...there are web browser tools that you can download as well as apps for smart phones and iPods, etc. You can also copy/paste a website on their website and "digg" it. The more often a website is "digg"ed, the more likely it will appear in the top listing for each category.