Title: Social Bookmarking
Course: TOPkit Sample Course Lite > Section: Module 5 - Enhancing Your Course with Emerging Technology

Notes for Course Facilitator

Summary:

This page defines social bookmarking and provides instructional strategies to incorporate social bookmarking into instructors' online and mixed-mode courses.

Suggestions:

- It is recommended that this page be updated to include specific resources related to social bookmarking at your institution.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is a way to save and organize your favorite websites; It also provides the ability to access the bookmarks from any computer that has access to the Internet. These tools provide the ability to share bookmarks with colleagues, friends, and family…essentially with whomever you choose.

One of the most common Social Bookmarking sites is:

- Diigo

This site allows you to view the many links and resources from the course after it is over and you no longer have access to the online portion of the class. In addition, the following three-minute video provides you with an overview of Social Bookmarking and how to these sites can be integrated into your course.

Instructional Strategies & Best Practices

Social Bookmarking can be used in either your face-to-face classes or online courses. You can create a social bookmarking list for different classes and have students add sites to the list each semester. This would provide a resource for you and your students that can be used beyond the semester.

Visit Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository to learn more about using Social Bookmarking for encouraging collaboration and providing resources.

Optional Further Reading

The following is a list of articles regarding Social Bookmarking as well as some of the social bookmarking sites currently available.

- Educause article: 7 things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
- Teaching Social Bookmarking with Diigo Education http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/62228.aspx
- Diigo You can create groups, highlight text in Web pages and add sticky notes here. Your bookmark page was created with Diigo. View this informative Diigo tutorial video regarding social bookmarking and how to use Diigo.
- Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh], a Firefox research citation tool, is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

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