Social Bookmarking is a web-based service to share Internet bookmarks. The Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of tagging techniques on the Internet. (Wikipedia) When you save a bookmark on a Social Bookmarking site you can access the bookmarks anywhere and at anytime. You are not restricted to the favourites or bookmarks on a specific machine.
7 Things you should know about Social Bookmarking from Educause
"7 Things You Should Know About... Social Bookmarking" addresses a community—or social—approach to identifying and organizing information on the Web.
This video from Common Craft illustrates the major concepts involved with Social Bookmarking:
Examples:
There are several Social Bookmarking Services:
Tutorials, videos and step-by-step instructions:
This 2 1/2 minut screencast will show you how to get started using the social bookmarking tool delicious.
David Warlick has prepared two handouts which provide step-by-step instructions on how to create and use delicious bookmarks.
Get started using Delicious with the 'cheat sheet'.
Use Delicious for Social Bookmarking - an excellent set of tips to help you use delicious effectively.
Using Social Bookmarking in the Classroom
All Together Now: Social bookmarking offers a new way to store and share Web sites By Donna DesRoches -- School Library Journal, 1/1/2007
This article illustrates some ways that Social Bookmarking can be used with students.
Assessment
Bookmarking and Social Bookmarking Rubric - this rubric is based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.
Tagging is an important concept in when using the read/write web. A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to. (Wikipedia, Tag) Tagging is used to categorize bookmarks, photographs and blog posts more effectively enabling the sharing of online content.
For example: You can also share the bookmarks that you have collected by the URL. You can share all your bookmarks or you can share those that have been assigned a specific tag.