Social Bookmarking Blog Post - February 8

Social Bookmarking Blog Post - February 8

Reflections on the process of learning about the tool (3 points)
Well, social bookmarking is another great social Web 2.0 tool! It’s another Web 2.0 tool that I had played around with previously, but never really used because I couldn’t see the point. After playing with this tool for the last week, I can seriously see myself using Delicious, and I am. I think that the problem before this blog posting was that I imported all my bookmarks (and there were hundreds), and this was just too unmanageable. So I started over again and imported only a select few bookmarks for the projects I am working on currently. Since I did this, I have been adding bookmarks at an alarming rate!!

One of the great things I’ve liked and started using again is the add-on for Delicious in Firefox. Unfortunately, I haven’t found the same add-on for Safari or Google Chrome. If anyone knows of one, let me know. The Firefox add-on is easy to use. I am pretty sure that Delicious is the only way that I will bookmark from now on.

Discussion of the tool in terms of your personal learning (e.g. me as a learner, me as a parent, me as part of a social group) (3 points)
My personal learning curve on this one wasn’t too steep. My greatest learning on this was determining that importing bookmarks en masse isn’t manageable. Especially when you have over 1200 bookmarks. Starting with the really important ones you use everyday and are using for school, work or for fun is the best way to start. Another important feature of Delicious, like that of many other Web 2.0 tools is tagging. Using the tagging feature has really helped keep track of my bookmarking. The fact that Delicious gives you some common tags really helps. The last feature that I really like is the new “browse bookmarks” feature. This feature is in Beta and I hope the folks at Delicious keep it!

Discussion of the tool in terms of your professional learning (e.g. me as a teacher, me as a school leader, me as a teacher-librarian, me as a member of professional learning communities/networks). This takes into account technology integration, use in schools, pros and cons, etc. (3 points)
I think that the greatest use for this type of Web 2.0 tool (maybe this is obvious?) is when a group of people are collaborating on a project from different venues. Currently I am using Delicious with a partner in a different class for a project on e-portfolios and it’s working great. I am also using it to collect resources for a Literature Review I am writing on IWBs.

I am also using Google Bookmarks on my iGoogle page and I really like this tools as well. I like the fact that the links for what I am working on currently right there when I open my any of the browsers I use.

This tool is really easy to use as well and allows for the addition of notes for each bookmark. This is very useful in my paper writing process.



Evidence of Research and Further Reading (3 points)
Educational Origami. (2009). Bookmarking and Social Bookmarking Rubric. Retrieved from http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Feinberg, Jonathan & Millen, David R. (2005). Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise. Retrieved from http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1105676

McGillicuddy. Shamus. (2006). Social bookmarking tools pushing collaboration to the edge. Retrieved from http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1195182,00.html

Noll, Michael G. (2007). Personalization 2.0: Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging. Retrieved from http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2007/07/18/personalization-20-web-search-personalization-via-social-bookmarking-and-tagging/

Reed, Adriana. (2008). Using Social Bookmarking in Academic Research. Retrieved from http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:qqMHj1UFVYIJ:www.mpla.us/documents/handouts/2008/reed.ppt+Social+Bookmarking+research&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

Lenhart, Amanda, Purcell, Kristen, Smith, Aaron and Zickuhr, Kathryn. (2010). Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx