Social Bookmarking- Lets get social about it with bookmarks. I have found that we are at a point in time where we have to be a lot more social. We are able to be more social now do to the web and especially web2.0. People who are not social in their offline lives find themselves interacting like they never thought they could. We are now at a place where we can be social in safety. We don't need to worry about how we look, unless we are webcamming. We don't have to worry about how we sound, unless we are on a mic, or how we smell, well not yet. It would be great to be able to smell all those wonderful pictures of food found across the net.
We are getting more and more social everyday. The more social we become the more information becomes available. I have found that we should be able to share any and all information we want or find notable with whom ever we wish. Social bookmarking is a great way to share information and interact with others. The idea of being able to check out a website of a friend or web acquaintance is cool. This will allow a person to be able to share part of themselves with the web. Our bookmarks tell a lot about us; our intests, our style and our philosophy. Social bookmarking can be as personal as you allow it to be. Browsing through a persons bookmarks is similar to looking through their trash a shrewd person could find out good amount of information about someone. This brings me to the point of this blog using social bookmarking in education. As I stated above looking at someone's bookmarks can tell you a lot about them, so if we apply this to education then you can find out a lot about a specific topic. Groups can use these services for collective projects. Either a group account can be established, with the password passed around to the group or, in what is probably a safer and more useful version, a group can establish a unique tag and tag all group-related links with it… This could get very interesting, since other people, outside of the class, could potentially add things as well just by using the tag. You could get people from all over the country contributing to your class reading list (Hedreen,2005)! Wow! This would be great if you needed more information for a paper or a project. I find this to be a very useful tool that could grow beyond the scope of the initial tagger. That's the "social" part of social bookmarking. Sure, you are likely to get some things that aren't useful or relevant for your purposes, but in return you get resources that you never would have found on your own (Hedreen,2005). This seems to be the point of web 2.0 itself, to bring people together and share more and more information.
The educational uses are easy to see. You can then bookmark the sites that interest you or you find useful for future reference. By doing this, you not only helping yourself not to lose track of these sites; you also help your fellow social bookmarkers by providing them with new interesting and useful sites (Squidoo.com, 2008). The more information we gather and share the closer we come to uncovering the secrets of this world. The nature of sharin seems to be at the core of web2.0. The idea behind social bookmarking - which is part of the so-called Web 2.0 movement towards a more interactive use of the web - is to provide a way of storing, organising and sharing web resources. Users assign categories, or "tags", to web material in a way that is meaningful to them, which can then be discovered by others (Corbyn, 2008). Finally, social bookmarking not only helps you keep track of your favorite sites, it also imparts knowlegde to others. The more social bookmarks that are set up, the closer we com to finding the best the web has to offer. Their are sites on the web you won't find through a search engine you must know the URL, however social bookmarknig can help tp give you access to places on the wenb you would never find on your own. Social bookmarking in education is a bright spot that we should continue to allow to shine.
Refereces
Corbyn, Z. (2008) Read it, like it, list it, share it. Retrieved November 8, 2009 from
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=40
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Hedreen, R. (2005) Social bookmarking in education. Retrieved November 8, 2009 from http://frequanq.blogspot.com/2005/02/social-bookmarking-in-education.html
Squidoo.com. (2008) Social bookmarking educations - things you need to know. Retrieved November 8, 2009 from http://www.squidoo.com/social-bookmarking-education
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