Creating an Educational Social Bookmarking Site

In this course, you have created a "social bookmarking site" for a course, subject, or unit of study that you teach in a K-12 or higher education curriculum content area for your students to use. You have also had the opportunity to view social bookmarking sites created by class members. Reflecting on this experience can be helpful as you move forward and plan to implement the use of social bookmarking in teaching and learning. Please post a "comment" in response to the following questions (and support your responses):

1. Describe your experience in creating a social bookmarking site. Was it a positive one? Were there challenges you had to overcome?
   

2. Which educational social bookmarking site did you like the most? Refer to elements in the "Social Bookmarking Rubric" to support your decision (include the Title of the social bookmarking site and URL).

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Social Bookmarking in Education

In this course, you were given the opportunity to explore education examples of social bookmarking, Internet resources about social bookmarking, and social bookmarking tools to provide you with a foundation for thinking about using social bookmarking for teaching and learning.

Please post a "comment" in response to the following questions (and support your responses):

1. Based on the social bookmarking resources that you explored in this session, discuss one social bookmarking education example, one social bookmarking resource, and one social bookmarking tool that was most relevant and interesting to you as an educator (include webpage titles, authors/organizations, and URLs)
   
   
2. Can you think of specific social bookmarking educational applications that would be worthwhile to use with students in a subject area that you teach?
   
   
3. Do you think social bookmarking is a useful Web 2.0 tool to engage students of the Net Generation in learning? (please explain)
   
   

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