Social+Bookmarks

One way people can share web links is through social bookmarks. Social bookmarks allows you to save web addresses with specific tags that you can share with others. For instance, a Kindergarten teacher finds interactive websites students can use during center time. She saves them at a social bookmarking website and enters tags that indicate the sites are interactive for kindergarten grade level. Another teacher could search the social bookmark site for interactive and see the link to the web the first teacher posted.

Go to http://del.icio.us/ and create a user account. You will recieve an email confiming your account. Follow the link in your email to complete the registration process.

After logging in, go to the settings link. Here you can upload your current bookmarks. There are also directions on how to edit tags, share and delete tags.

Activity: Search del.icio.us for links to wikis, instant messaging, or podcasting in education. Browse the links and check some of them out. The ones that you think you might use or reference, add them to your list by clicking on "save this." You will share some of the links you found with the whole class.