This blog is no longer utilized - however I keep it up so that I can share with others what I have done within this social media course.

This was my first time teaching this course.

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Social Bookmarking

Today students evaluated the MEEZ avatar on their blogs. Students were introduced to social bookmarking.  Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and tagging them with keywords.  To create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or private.  Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for resources by keywords, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that registered users have created and saved.   Social bookmarking is a new way of organizing information and categorizing resources.  The creator of a bookmark assigns tags to each resource.  Social bookmarking sites indicate who created each bookmark and provides access to that person's other bookmarked resources, users can easily make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic.  Users can also see how many people have used a tag and search for all resources that have been assigned that tag. 


A simple way for you to share and organize what you have found on the internet is a website called Symbaloo. This is an icon social bookmarking page, which is most commonly used as a personal start page. By setting it as your homepage on your browser, you can start with your online favorites everyday. You can create your own "web mixes" of your favorite websites - or create them by category.  There is also webmixes already created for you.  This site features top news stories and news stories from the NYTimes, Washingtonpost, CNN and Wallstreet Journal. 
  • Discover pages with the best links about a subject
  • Create your own pages with favorites
  • Share your page with the rest of the world
You can share it with just one person, or publish it in the Symbaloo Gallery!

DELICIOUS
Delcious is a social bookmarking website.  The primary purpose of delicious is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too.

You must have a yahoo account to utilize Delicious  del.icio.us is a collection of favorites – yours and everyone else’s. You can use del.icio.us to:


  • Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
  • Share favorites/resources with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
  • Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s favorite — they’ve already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.
You can use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags.  These bookmarks can be public or private.  While conducting research, students can save sites with notes.  This could provide an informal bibliography.

For more social bookmarking websites - visit our class wiki and click Social Bookmarking on the side bar.