1. Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning Jennifer Verschoor & Evelyn Izquierdo April 3, 2009

2. What is social bookmarking? Social Bookmarking is a new Web 2.0 technology that allows Internet users to read, store, classify, rate, comment on, organize by topic or category, mark by using tags and share with virtual communities or individuals with common interests search links to any Website.

4. Tagging 87% are successful 92% of search engine confident in their searching ability 17% of search engine users say they always find the information they are looking for Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project report entitled "Search Engine Users":://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Tagging+to+help+TeachersSearch Engine Users://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Tagging+to+help+Teachers

5. Folksonomy

6. Popular bookmarking services

7. The most popular Delicious Delicious Diigo Diigo StumbleUpon Edutagger RedditReddit Mixx Mixx

8. How do social bookmarks work? Look at the following video about Delicious:

9. Delicious

10. Link to Web site Bookmark number Description or notes Tags

11. What does Delicious offer to educators? Delicious allows us to: save and store all our bookmarks online and keep them in one place. get to them from any computer, anywhere, anytime. It's like carrying our 'Favorites' with us. see what other teachers or students are bookmarking. know about the most popular bookmarks being saved in the educational field. share them with other colleagues and students. keep track of our entire bookmark collection. organize and classify our favorite sites by using tags. have access to online teaching resources for classes, lectures or presentations.

12. StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. (Wikipedia, 2009)Internet communityrecommendation engine social-networking

13. What does StumbleUpon offer to educators? StumbleUpon allows us to bookmark: Articles, online books and any other Website related to education Blogs Photos Videos

14. Reddit Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links down or up, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page. (Wikipedia, 2009)social news

15. Mixx Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.social mediasocial networkingbookmarkingweb syndication bloggingpersonalization tools

16. Diigo What How

17. Highlight & Share the Web

18. Diigo http://www.diigo.com/

19. Collaborative Research Ideal for team research Organize resources using group bookmarks Sticky notes are great for discussion

20. Diigo Groups http://groups.diigo.com/groups/edn

21. Educational Benefits

22. Advantages Instant traffic Easier to find information Organizing and classifying reading resources Sharing and learning Allows people with similar interests to create communities of users and thus influence resource tags.

23. Integrating Social Bookmarks means opening our classroom door to the world

24. Resources Further readings: What is Reddit and how can I use it to promote and market my blog posts? Advantage of Social Bookmarking Videos: Social bookmarking: Making the Web work for you Social bookmarking Images: What is social bookmarking? http://www.flickr.com/photos/25577119@N04/3107789751/http://www.flickr.com/photos/25577119@N04/3107789751/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfthemind-com/161406818/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/274041826/http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfthemind-com/161406818/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/274041826/ folksonomies http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlhula/2848879655/ sharing http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=diigo&page=3 diigo highlighter http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlhula/2848879655/ http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=diigo&page=3

25. Thank you very much! Evelyn Izquierdo evelyn.izquierdo@gmail.com Jennifer Verschoor jenverschoor@gmail.com