Social Bookmarking is saving links to websites, images, and other items on the Internet and posting them to a site where they can be shared with other site users or made private for only personal use.
As a student, social bookmarking can be used to store links in a location that can be accessed with multiple computers. This can be useful for someone who doesn’t want to carry their personal computer from their dorm/home to campus where there are computers for students to use. It makes the links so that all the student needs to do is log-in and can view and add to their link collections. Also, for someone like me who has an iPod, some of the sites, like diigo, have an app that can be used to store the bookmarks and download particular books to be read online or offline. This is useful for when you know you won’t have Internet access and can download a site to look at while offline.
As a teacher, social bookmarking can be useful for sharing links to resources so that students can access them at home without having to remember or write down all the links. For example, for art, a Flickr account can be used to have a collection of images that students need to review, and diigo can be used to save the link for easy access. Students can also share sites that they find while doing research on a topic so that the rest of the class can see the sites too. As Digital Natives, perhaps the students find sites that a teacher wouldn’t have found on their own.
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