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Social Bookmarking presentation by Holly Boykin. Welcome!. If you have a question or a comment, please type a message or raise your hand. Lesson Objective.
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Lesson Objective The participant will define “social bookmarking” and identify three ways in which a social bookmarking site can be used to enhance instruction.
Have you ever lost your “bookmarks” or your “favorites?”
Social Bookmarking is for YOU!
Wikipedia says . . . “Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.”
About.com defines social bookmarking sites as “sites that allow users to post their favorite sites, using tags (or keywords) to categorize and organize them; then other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection or share them with even more users.”
In other words . . . Social bookmarking sites are websites that allow you to store the addresses of your favorite websites on-line so that you can easily access them and share them with others.
About.com’s Ten Best Social Bookmarking Sites Delicious Furl Digg Reddit Clipmarks StumbleUpon Newsvine Mixx Diigo Propeller
How does it work? Create an account Install “Plug-ins” or “Add-ons” Browse for sites Tag sites with keywords.
Advantage 1: Efficient Delicious Button Bookmark Button Tag Button
Let’s Review What is social bookmarking? • A way to store your favorite websites on-line • A way to share your favorite websites with others • A way to chat with others about your favorite books • Both A and B
Let’s Review Which of the following is an advantage of using social bookmarks? • FREE! • On-line • Easy and Efficient • Encourages Collaboration • All of the above
Let’s Review Social bookmarking sites are . . . • On-line • Easy and Efficient • Social
Resources • Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking • Delicious http://delicious.com/ • About.com http://websearch.about.com/od/bestwebsites/tp/freebookmarks.htm • All pictures from Microsoft Office Clipart