Social Bookmarking

Have you ever found yourself away from your home computer or laptop, and wanting the links to your favorites? Or perhaps you just bought a new computer and are dreading having to recreate your list of favorites. Well if you have, social bookmarking is probably a great idea for you. This week we had a presentation on social bookmarking, which before I had never even heard of. Like most of the terms on the web you can figure out what it means from its name. Instead of bookmarking in your favorites on your web browser at home, you would bookmark the sites or tag the sites on a social bookmarking website. You can create your own site with all of the links to your favorite sites in one place that is accessible wherever internet access is. 

For use in the classroom  you can create a page just for your students with links to relevant sites that they might find helpful for class. Then there comes April Fool's Day, and because you can rename the links you can leave them all as they are and change them to rick roll your kids and have them watch Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up music video. You might run into some problems if your students actually needed to link those sites that you post that night so just be careful as with everything in the lovely field of teaching!