Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking has been hiding from me and I wish I had known it. This is an awesome tool that allows me to bookmark sites quickly and efficiently without the hassle of school networks. There have been many times that I have found a site at home that I wanted to use at school. I had one of three ways to get it on my school computer. 1) write it down and hope I didn't mess up the URL. 2) Email the link to myself. 3) Search for the link again when I got to school.

With social bookmarking all of those steps are eliminated. I simply press a button, and the site is magically saved to my files online. Then when I get to school I can log onto the site and voila there is the website I wanted. I wish I had heard about this earlier. This has definitely made things easier for me.

One of the most beneficial uses I will get out of social bookmarking is being able to share with other teachers of the deaf. Very few of us exist and when we find a website we love we go through the trouble of emailing the link to all the teachers we know. With social bookmarking I can provide the URL and they can check periodically to see if I have anything new in my site.

This is also going to be a great tool for me when trying to find information on math, science, or social studies. These are not subjects that I teach other than a small unit here or there. With social bookmarking I can find out what sites others recommend without having to spend as much time searching myself.

Lots of possibilities.