Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking - An introduction



I must admit, the idea of social bookmarking is a little lost on me.  I can gather it is a way to store and manage and organize online information.The problem for me is that I just can't get myself organized on social bookmarking until I'm a bit more organized in my life! Still, I do think I have used some social bookmarking in life -- I just joined:

out of interest.  I love the visual element of this cyper pin board but I'm just not sure when I'll get a chance to look at it again.  I have done some research and I've learned that it is place where consumers hangout to follow trends and eventually buy!  I suppose that is why I should cautiously hangout at Pinterest.  In case you're curious about Pinterest, here's the link discussing 6 reasons for using Pinterest for marketing:  Pinterest

Next, I have certainly used this next social bookmarking site:

This tool is effective as you can simply send/save documents, images and videos.  It's a great place to store these items rather than using email.  Dropbox can be easily shared with anyone.  Some inboxes get crowded and congested when others send very large files, etc.  Dropbox prevents this.  My family uses this to share photos, especially recently when we were all at a family reunion on the island.  We wanted to the max. size for printing purposes and Dropbox allowed us to share back and forth.  I've sent important documents to my sister in Calgary using Dropbox - that's the wonderful, virtual nature of Dropbox. 

Another tool I've discovered in Evernote:

The prof from my last online course used Evernote to share feedback on assignments.  It was interesting to discover a note taking tool.  While researching Evernote, I came across this article promoting the use of this web-based tool:  http://thetechclassroom.com/teaching-organization-and-non-fiction-using-evernote/

Notes can be created and organized and shared.  I like the above link as there is teaching suggestion for using Evernote in the English classroom.  I think the key here is the help with ORGANIZATION.  So important for students and for us, too.  And I've just learned about Evernote Food - how delicious sounding is that???  A great place to journal about food and share photos... yum!

Here's a really cool one - Pocket - formally Read it Later:

This works for when you simply can't read an article or page from a website immediately.  You can add the articles/pages to this bookmarking site and you can read them at a later time. To me it feels like an online "pod cast" - a place I go to later, when it's most convenient for me.  Very cool.    

And finally here's a great one for homework:

An easy one to use since the interface is uncluttered.  Students can use iHomework for inputting of course schedules, teachers' names, assignmend deadlines, marks, etc.  A top organization tool to be had.  

As I look back on all of this, I think I have to have it in me to go to these places - my tendency would be to fall back on what my status quo is for organizing my files, my to do list, my feeback for students.  This course is certainly opening my eyes to what's out there.  I now feel lilke I can talk about what social bookmarking is to some degree.  So many changes too... we really need to keep up!