Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Learners in Roy Brandt's Class Use Social Bookmarking

Sometimes we have students find websites that relate to our classes to share or annotate. On our own computers, Favorites is the tool we often use to save sites for future references. However, social bookmarking allows us to save them at a website so we can retrieve or share them wherever we are online. Look at Roy’s post as he explains what that practice looks like for learners in his courses.

Here’s Brad LeFever's three-minute something video explaining it:



To learn more about the Social Bookmarking, visit Educause’s “Seven Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking":

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf


Some widely used social bookmarking services are Del.icio.us, Furl, and Magnolia.

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