Social Bookmarking and Education

There are many educational uses for social bookmarking. Some big advantages to social bookmarking in general is the ability to get to your bookmarks anywhere in the world as long as there is internet and the ability to share your websites easily with specific people or the masses (Thompson, 2008). These are huge advantages to eduction especially teachers because they are able to go to any computer in the world and have access to information that they use on a daily basis (Hastings, 2009).

There are three major ways that social bookmarking can benefit education. The first one is to improve teacher to teacher communication. Teachers are able to share bookmarks and information with each other without having to copy and paste many different websites to each other. Teachers can also view newly added sites at anytime. You do not even have to know the person you are sharing bookmarks with and you do not need to share any personal information with them.

The second major way that social bookmarking benefits education is the ability for teachers to share with students. This can be especially beneficial if you want the students to do research from specific websites. Students do not have to waste precious time looking for valid websites. Once a teacher has found the websites that they want the students to pull information from they can tag them and students have access to the information that you want them to have anywhere there is internet.

The last major way that social bookmarking benefits education is the ability for students to share information with other students. Students can use information that their classmates have found for their own use. Students have a ability to work together on a project from their own home (Buffington 2008).

Social bookmarking can increase the speed and amount of information that teachers and students can use that really benefits the educational system.

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Hastings, Robin. (2009) Collaboration Tools, 2.0 Style. Library Technology Reports. Vol.45 Issue 4, p19-27. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=111&sid=1d8d2d40-cc8a-4f28-901d-db683f607649%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1Mb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZl#db=tfh&AN=43280596

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