Social+Bookmarking

What is it?
Social bookmarking gives you the ability to bookmark pages that are relevant to you and share them among your peers. There are a few different types of social bookmarking services that allow you to do this. Two of the top bookmarking sites are **del.icio.us** and **Diigo.**

Diigo Education
Check out Diigo's new service exclusively for teachers: @http://www.diigo.com/education. The new Diigo Educator Accounts are special upgrades provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators so they can easily make use of Diigo in class and with their students. Diigo provides a powerful online research tool and learning environment that allows teachers and their students or colleagues to: media type="custom" key="11117104"
 * add highlights and sticky notes on any web page, anywhere, and access them anywhere.
 * utilize group online annotations for instruction or discussions.
 * share and interact online findings through group bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum discussions.
 * and a lot more!

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[|A quick-start guide for Delicious] from ICSD Technology Integration Staff Developers - Roger Sevilla & Jennifer Goodmark

[|Learning Technologies Center] this page, which includes a video, concentrates on features of the [del.icio.us] social bookmarking site. A comprehensive view of Social bookmarking from webtools4u2use [|Social Bookmarking information from Monroe #1 BOCES Model Schools Wiki] [|TechLearning article on Social Bookmarking with discussion of several tools] http://delicious.com

[|How one school (Willowdale) uses social bookmarking]

You can embed delicious links in a wiki page. This would be useful. You could have a wiki page called Literacy and on that page have just your literacy links appear. Note that this is dynamic, so as you tag more sites in your delicious with "literacy", they will automatically show up on your Literacy wiki page for students! Check this out... Litercay wiki page.

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