Social Bookmarking For Educational Purposes

Bookmarking is saving your favorite websites to your web browser where they're always available for viewing

. It is a very handy and convenient feature because the websites can be accessed at any time as long as you are on the computer where they've been saved. Unfortunately, they cannot be viewed if you're on a different computer unless you've used social bookmarking.

It allows you to view your websites on any computer as well as share them with others. Social bookmarking is used for many purposes, both personal and business. Social bookmarking is extremely helpful for educational purposes.

It organizes your websites in much the same way as a librarian organizes the books. Library books are organized and categorized by title and subject. Social bookmarking sites are stored on a social bookmarking site and categorized by tags or keywords. The tags give a description of what the website is about so viewers can find it easily.

Instructors and teachers can use it as a way to find what other teachers are using for on a specific top of study. With the use of tags, instructors can enter appropriate tags on the subject they're looking for and the most popular sites will show up in the search result. If they're looking for a specific research matter or references to a topic, they can also find them easily through social bookmarking.

Instructors that wish to share their reference lists and research with other colleagues also use social bookmarking. With online schools so popular today, the use of social bookmarking is at an all time high today.

Teachers also use social bookmarking as a way to provide their students with research material and study guides outside of the classroom. Computers and the internet are widely used today in all schools from kindergarten right through colleges. Teachers can add links to the social bookmarking sites where students can easily view them from their home, place of work or on their laptop.

All the students have to do is go onto the social bookmarking site, type in the appropriate tags and they have access to the website. The more the websites are viewed, the more they increase in popularity. The convenience of this is that when other teachers see these sites, they know that they are popular sites and ones that are used by other instructors and students.

This is the beauty of social bookmarking. The ability to save and share important and educational links allows the teaching staff to spend less time looking for new material and devote more time to the students in the classroom.

by: Frank Breinling

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