Blog Post: “Thing 12, Social book marking”: Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere? How can educators take advantage of social bookmarking sites? How can brick and mortar or online teachers utilize these tools for teaching?
I have heard of del.icio.us before and actually taken a look at it but i have never used diigo before. They are both very similar nad very useful for keeping track of all of the bookmarked sites that I have stored on my computer. The problem of just bookmarking them on my machine is that when I do that I am tying those favorite sites to one machine. So if I go to a friends site I can not access my bookmarked sites unless I use a social bookmark site like del.icio.us or diigo.
As a teacher I think that it is very important to share good sites with other educators and this is a great way to share all the great sites that are available to educators and students by posting them to a social bookmark site.
As I take this class I have my blog bookmarked and the URL for clovis23 things bookmarked so the other day when I was at work and on my laptop I did not work on this class for the simple fact that I did not have the URL marked on my laptop since I have been completein the class on my desktop at home. If I had set up a social bookmark site and marked these URL on there it would of been much easier for me to continue with the course from any computer.
Another thought would be if your computer crashes you may not be able to restore you favorite sites. If they were marked on a social bookmarking site that is one less thing to worry about if you computer crashes.
I highly recommend everyone taking a few hours to register with a social bookmarking site and organize all of your favorite sites there.
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