BP5_2009102_Educational Uses for Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a different way of saving bookmarks other than saving bookmarks onto your computer. Social Bookmarking is a way to bookmark your favorite sites and share them with other people. Social Bookmarking is Internet based and allows anyone to access his or her books form anywhere in the world where there is Internet service.

Social Bookmarking allows educators around the world to share their interests. Teachers may create a social bookmarking site for their academic department. This allows all teachers in the department to contribute to a growing database of web resources. The teacher and students can share the same bookmarks. Students and teachers can also collaborate on projects with other schools, sharing bookmarks between all parties involved. CR2.0 (2009)

Classroom2dot0, (2009). Social bookmarking. Retrieved October, 11 2009 from http:// wiki.classroom20.com/Social+Bookmarkingre

I can use social bookmarking to build a source of math websites for my students.There are thousands upon thousands of math websites, however it is difficult to sometimes find the right one that is appropriate for my needs. I often find that other teachers have located sites that I would like to use. To share this information the website link is sent to me in an email then I access the site and I add it to my bookmarks on my computer or the URL is written on a piece of paper and never makes it to my bookmarks. In addition when I am working from home I do not have access to my bookmarks that are located on my teacher computer, therefore I am deprived of valuable resources I need to develop assignments unless I can remember the name of the website. With social bookmarking gaining access to my valuable websites will never be an issue no matter where I am in the world.

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This is an example of an excellent math website I found through social bookmarking. This resource reinforces basic math skills though speed. Believe it or not many middle school math students continue to like knowledge of basic multiplication facts from 3 x 1 to 12 x 12. This resource allows me to easily assess my students’ basic math abilities and prescribe remedies to help student learning. There are many examples of how I will use this new knowledge of social bookmarking as a part of my personal learning environment at assist student learning, this was just on of them.