Social Bookmarking

From my perspective, Social bookmarking like Delicious has great potential in education, more specific, in teaching and learning process. It can support really well in sharing information, resources and processing. For example, when the history teacher A want to share the sources which are many websites relating to historical events to his students, he can share his bookmark list with the tag history event, revolution or history changing. Conversely, when the students want to find resources of information, he or she can visit the professor's social bookmarking page to look for them with explicit tags. However, the teacher also can improve the list by consulting the bookmark list of his colleagues, maybe there are a lot of useful sources for him to add to his list. Therefore his students will be provided better information. Another example is the information sharing among students. When student X created a list of many pages about Asian cultures, student Y made another list about African cultures. Then, the professor requires students to find the details about the cultures all over the world. Both of student X and Y don't need to spend a lot of time to find the sources. Instead, they can look at each other's list and tag to get necessary information. Additionally, they can also find the information from other professor's list. For instance, the student Y knows student Z in the class of professor B, so he find for the resource that professor B gave student Z to complete the assignment. That is just between students and teacher. The social bookmarking also can improve the relationship between teacher and parents. The parents can follow the teacher's bookmark page to find the source of schedule, syllabus or their children's learning process.

Learn more about Social Bookmarking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Learn more about Delicious: https://delicious.com/about