Social Bookmarking

For our Social Bookmarking assignment I have joined http://del.icio.us/. The reasons I chose to go with this bookmarking sight is its simplicity. For the time being I have added bookmarks and they are in a list on my sight http://del.icio.us/seidelna. I have not yet figured out how to lump sights together based on categories or common themes. Another reason I have chosen to join del.icio.us is that my instructor for the other course I am taking this summer, ED 633, is using it. I have never heard of social bookmarking sights before this summer. I even have very, very computer literate friends, that didn't know what the heck I was talking about when I asked them if they had a social bookmark account. I was hoping to get some ideas of other bookmarking options. Oh well! Maybe I taught them a thing or two.

Joining the service was very simple, all I had to do was register by providing my full name, username, and password. Once logged in I began adding my desktop favorites and the sights I've discovered through my blog and wiki searches.

I added far more then five resources to my bookmarking service. Listed below are the five resources I chose to use to locate new sources from other del.icio.us subscribers and what I added to my account.

1. Traveling Stories (http://www.traveling-stories-magazine.com/) which led to The Travel Rag (http://www.thetravelrag.com/)
2. Teachers-Teachers (http://www.teachers-teachers.com/) which led to Space for Kids (http://www.gigglepotz.com/space.htm)
3. Pandora Radio (http://pandora.com/) which led to NPR Radio (http://www.npr.org/)
4. Wikia (http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia) which led to Educational Wikis (http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis)
5. Alaska Teacher Placement (http://www.alaskateacher.org/doku.php) which led to Educator's Reference Desk (http://www.eduref.org/)

This experience was helpful, I thought using my interests to find other resources a nice alternative to searching with Google. Most of the sight I found were appropriate for what I was looking for and I think the majority of the sights I found through social bookmarking will remain in my de.icio.us account. Using the tags was very helpful in finding the topics I was interested in. The only drawback I can think of is if someone doesn't label their tags the way my brain thinks. I look forward to exploring this resource much more in the future.