Social Bookmarking

Do you need to access your bookmarks and favourite websites at home and in the office? Do your colleagues email you links that you lose in your inbox? Or, are you already using social bookmarks to track references or ideas for yourself or with colleagues? Store, organize, share and search bookmarks online, manage who sees your bookmarks, and explore the use of tags to provide a more complex organization and descriptions.

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What it does^

Research

• describe new websites
• find for a new bookmark/ websites

Community and collaboration

• evaluate or critique online resources
• track new bookmarks related to a specific subject
• track bookmarks collected by another user

Active Learning

• organize online resources
• build a repository on a subject - compare and contrast different resources

Benefits for faculty^

• share online research materials
• share blog postings or book reviews
• find teaching resources

Benefits for students^

• collaborative research
• repository that can be built on over years, linking different courses and topics
• supports ongoing, non course based informal learning

Issues or concerns^

• privacy -
• access - can access at public computers???

Implementation^

• choose your tool (based on what your colleagues - near and far - already use, probably)
• play and experiment with the tool

Resources^

• Report on Folksonomies (PDF download)∞
• Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts. By Will Richardson∞
• U of Toronto page on Social Bookmarking∞
• George Seimans at University of Manitoba∞
• 12 ideas for social bookmarking in education∞

Observations^