{"id":1730,"date":"2011-04-07T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:29:14","slug":"social-bookmarking-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/social-bookmarking-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Bookmarking in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Social<\/a>Many educators just use the favorites menu on their computer either at work or home. But what about when we’re at home and need to get to a site we saved at school? <\/strong>This is where social bookmarking comes in! <\/span>Bookmarking favorite links on the internet is something that can make life easier for us as educators – it means that it’s easy to find a really neat site later when looking for it. <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Putting SOCIAL in Bookmarking<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The social part of social bookmarking works like this: you can share your links that you’ve saved through a service like Diigo<\/a> with anyone else who uses Diigo. You can also use Diigo to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark – this can be extremely useful for a team of teachers who like to share teaching resources<\/strong>. You can even search Diigo to find the many bookmarks that others have saved — it helps sort out the good sites, which is hard to do on most search engines. If a lot of other teachers have saved a link, you know it’s at least popular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizing Your Bookmarks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Teachers can and should also organize your links with tags. Tags are simply words that the teacher associates with a particular link and to create categories for easy reference and later access. Imagine being able to find information that you’ve seen before and bringing it into your classroom right when you need it. And a neat thing is that you can have as many tags as you’d like. When you’re saving links Diigo even suggests tags that other teacher’s, educators and ed tech people have used when saving the same links<\/strong>! To tag a link when you’re saving it, simply type the tag (word or key phrase) in as keywords. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are tags that might be used for saving a link to Professional Learning Board: <\/span><\/p>\n

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