Social bookmarking is a relatively new (couple of year-old) way of bookmarking your favorite web sites or pages. It’s called social bookmarking, because you save and categorize (by tagging them) your bookmarks on a computer network, such as Del.icio.us, BlinkList, Simpy or Diigo (the one our professor use in class), that allows you to access that list of bookmarks from any computer and other people can make use of your own bookmark, as well as you do. It’s a great example of R/W web.
What is really interesting about it is the tagging. Using technical but also more generic words to categorize your bookmarks, you can search the sites that are related to a matter much more easily, instead of having to create many different folders and copy each bookmark for each folder that it relates to.
I think it’s a great way to have access to information that other teachers found interesting and, in a very informal way, have a “peer-evaluation” on a variety of sites. Also the fact that you can search for the tags is a time saver, and that’s a big help for us as grad students and teachers, as what is always lacking for us is time. It’s a great tool and I’m already using it for my other classes.
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