Exploring Social Bookmarking in Education

Social bookmarking in education makes life easier for us as educators. All we have to do is save our favorite links on the internet  and we can access it with ease at a later time. Often we just use the favorites menu on our computer either at work or home. But what if when we’re at home and need to get to a site we saved at school? This is where social bookmarking comes in!

Diigo makes social bookmarking and web annotation capabilities easy and powerful! Diigo is an online community for learning people, where information, knowledge and community come together. The Diigo network creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in their network.

The social part of social bookmarking in education comes in here: you can share your Diigo links that you’ve saved with other teachers who uses Diigo! You can also use Diigo to see the interesting links that they bookmark – this would be extremely useful for a team of teachers who like to share resources. You can even search Diigo to find the many bookmarks that others have saved – it helps to sort out the good sites, which is hard to do on most search engines. If a lot of people have saved a link, you know it’s at least popular.

How would social bookmarking be able to help you or your community of teachers?

From Professional Learning Board’s online continuing education course for teachers: Web Technology for Teachers