Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning
Evelyn Izquierdo & Jennifer Verschoor
April 3, 2009

What is social bookmarking?
Social Bookmarking is a new Web 2.0 technology
that allows Internet users to read, store, classify,
rate, comment on, organize by topic or category,
mark by using tags and share with
virtual communities or individuals with common
interests search links to any Website.Â
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Tagging
87% are successful
92% of search engine
confident in their
searching ability
17% of search engine users say they always find the
information they are
looking for
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project report entitled \"Search Engine Users\":
://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Tagging+to+help+Teachers

Folksonomy

Popular
bookmarking
services
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The most popular
Delicious Diigo
StumbleUpon
Edutagger
Reddit Mixx
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How do social bookmarks work?
Look at the following You Tube video about Delicious:
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Delicious
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Delicious Link to Web site
Bookmark number
Description or notes
Tags
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What does Delicious offer to educators?
Delicious allows us to:
• save and store all our bookmarks online and keep them in one
place.
• get to them from any computer, anywhere, anytime. It's like
carrying our 'Favorites' with us.
• see what other teachers or students are bookmarking.
• know about the most popular bookmarks being saved in the
educational field.
• share them with other colleagues and students.
• keep track of our entire bookmark collection.
• organize and classify our favorite sites by using tags.
• have access to online teaching resources for classes, lectures or
presentations.
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StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users
to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a
personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and
social-networking principles. (Wikipedia, 2009)
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What does StumbleUpon offer to
educators?
StumbleUpon allows us to bookmark:
• Articles, online books and any other Website related to
education
• Blogs
• Photos
• Videos
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Reddit
Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links
to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted
links down or up, causing them to appear more or less
prominently on the Reddit home page. (Wikipedia, 2009)
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Mixx
Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users
submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It
combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication,
blogging and personalization tools. (Wikipedia, 2009)
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Diigo
What How
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Highlight & Share the Web
(Video)

Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/

Ideal for team research
Collaborative
 Research
Organize resources
using group
bookmarks
Sticky notes are great for
discussion

Diigo  Groups
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/edn

Educational
Benefits

Advantages
• Instant traffic
• Easier to find information
• Organizing and classifying
reading resources
• Sharing and learning
• Allows people with similar
interests to create
communities of users and thus
influence resource tags.

Integrating Social
Bookmarks means
opening our classroom
door to the world

Resources
Further readings:
What is Reddit and how can I use it to promote and market my blog posts?
Advantage of Social Bookmarking
Videos:
Social bookmarking: Making the Web work for you
Social bookmarking
Images:
What is social bookmarking? http://www.flickr.com/photos/25577119@N04/3107789751/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfthemind-com/161406818/
Folksonomies http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/274041826/
Sharing http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlhula/2848879655/
Diigo highlighter http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=diigo&page=3
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Thank you very much!
Evelyn Izquierdo
evelyn.izquierdo@gmail.com
Jennifer Verschoor
jenverschoor@gmail.com