Social bookmarking is a pretty brilliant idea, and uniquely usable for classroom teachers, especially secondary and higher. When trying to make it possible to reach all of the students that a secondary or post-secondary instructor would teach in a single day, the mind fairly boggles. But the idea of using social bookmarking makes it much easier. Using a common naming technique, making it available to all students and then updating it as necessary, and all of the students would be able to keep up with the class information.
Many instructors require students to do research online, especially in high school and post-secondary studies, this is an excellent way to keep students linked in with information. Rodd Lucier has an appreciation for this on the Clever Sheep website as he outlines with a link to an excellent video by Common Craft, and then explains in very simple terms that even the most frightened luddite will understand.
In "The Role of Delicious in Education" we have the history of Delicious, chapter and verse, as well as the psychological meanings behind every move made on the site. It might be a little more in depth than most people need, but it certainly explains very clearly how the site works, and why. I appreciated some of the candor and humor that Dr. Grosseck used when discussing the ways people use the Internet, and bookmarking. She did a remarkably thorough job of explaining Delicious.
For my third site, I chose http://wiki.classroom20.com/social+bookmarking#toc3. It's not authored by anyone in particular as far as I can tell, but it's chock full of links and other information about bookmarking that are useful. It also gives a great bulleted abbreviated list about why social bookmarking is a good thing for education. I like things that are short, sweet, and to the point. Most teachers do because we don't have time to wade through paragraphs of junk for someone to make their point. Lists are better. This site does an admirable job of making its point.
As is often the case for teachers, we find ourselves defending various aspects of education. If any of the teachers reading this ever find the need to defend social bookmarking, any one of these three websites would do an absolute bang up job of it for you. Just direct people to them.
Grosseck, G. (2008, March 29). The Role of delicious in education. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/2413801/The-Role-of- Delicious- in-Education
Lucier, R. (2008, January 8). Social bookmarking in the classroom. Retrieved from http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/01/social- bookmarking-in-classroom.html
http://wiki.classroom20.com/social+bookmarking#toc3
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