Teaching for Information Literacy

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:

• Donna's full set of delicious bookmarks
• Links tagged informationliteracy

There are several Social Bookmarking Services:

• Delicious
• Diigo

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.