To start with, online Bookmarking can be a huge help personally to anyone who works on multiple computers. Most people have a work machine, a home machine, and maybe use a public computer at times. The problem with this is that the bookmarks you have stored on one machine are not available on the other machines and totally not available on that public access machine or a machine at a friend's house. Online Bookmarking sets out to change all of that. By logging into your bookmark site, all of your links are organized for you no matter where you are or what machine you are using.
In addition to the convenience factor of knowing where your links are, online bookmarking can also be Social. In this instance, Social means shared among people with common interests. Using an online bookmarking tool can help us weed out the wheat from the chaff on a particular topic online. By searching for links that have many bookmark instances within a community, you can have some confidence in the reliability of the information contained within.
Delicious.com was first site to facilitate social bookmarking and remains the most popular. Click here for a how-to on setting up a site and searching bookmarks. Post your site on your blog (form is delicious.com/username ) and answer the following on your blog post also:
-What social bookmarking searches obtained good results for you?
-Would social bookmarking searching make sense as a part of your lesson planning?
