Social book marking is ways for internet users to share organize, search and manage bookmarks for web pages. A description can be added to bookmark in the form of a Metadata, so that other users will understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. A description can consist of a free text comment or votes in favor of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. A folksonomy also called social tagging is a process where many users add metadata in the form of a keyword to be shared. In a social book marking system a user can save links to web pages that they would like to remember or share with other users. These types of bookmarks are usually open to the public to view, or can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or s groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. Users that are allowed to see these bookmarks can view it chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. They also include information about the number of users who have book marked them. Some book marking services provide web feeds for their list of book marks, including lists that are organized by tags. This will allow users to become aware of new book marks tagged by other users. I think when teachers use this method with their students this is more of a connective learning for them because it’s a network environment and the students learn from other people in their network.
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www.webtrend.about.com/.../socialbookmarking101
www.educause.edu/ir/library/PDF/ELI700/.PDF
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