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**Introduction**
Social bookmarking is a way to store and share bookmarked web sites online. These services allow you to not only bookmark a website, annotate it, but also see who else and how many others are bookmarking that same site. Additionally, these social bookmarking services have RSS feeds, so that new bookmarks are updated and available in an aggregator. Bookmarks can be organized in categories for easier navigation. This video, [|Soical Bookmarking in Plain English], by the Common Craft Show, explains Social Bookmarking in easy to understand terms: media type="custom" key="497016"

Social Bookmarking Tools
The two most popular of these types of [|web]services are [|Delicious] and [|Diigo]. //(The main difference between these two tools is that Delicious is simple and easy to use, while Diiigo, with its powerful tools such as highlighing secitons of a web page, attaching and sharing notes on web pages, and sharing in groups adds complexity to the tool.)//

A teacher, who may not have access to publish bookmarks to a web site, could use this free service to gather web resources for student focus. A school site could use this service for gathering subject specific web resources. Students can use this service to gather web resources for a class that uses a pre-determined common tag.

Handouts
by Ellen Whelpton [|Diigo - Highlight and Share on the Web] by Tyler Manolovitz

Tutorials
The presentation below has some guidelines for getting started with using the social bookmarking tool, Delicious. media type="custom" key="3457838"

Going deeper with Diigo, these are some help pages at Diigo about Diigo, including some video tutorials (version 4). This video explains the added benefits of using Diigo, including highlighting, adding sticky notes and clipping (now called preview): media type="youtube" key="KlqfJsmjcOs" height="344" width="425" This presentation by Jennifer Dorman thorougly explains how to set up and use a Diibo account media type="custom" key="4285377"

Workshop Resources
To learn more about how to use Social Bookmarking in education:
 * [|I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies] by Chris Betcher at the K12 Online Conference
 * [|Diigo on Clasrroom 2.0 Live] - An Introduction to Diigo
 * [|Part 3] of [|RSS - A Four Part Series], by James Gates and Kurt Paccio at the K-12 Online Conference (A video tutorial)
 * [|Del.icio.us Screencast] by Jeff Utecht for the K-12 Online Conference (A video tutorial)
 * [|Let's Play Tag and Do More with Del.ico.us] by Alan Levine from his presentation at the K-12 Online Conference from the [|I Did Not Know You Could Do THAT With Free Web Tools] presentation
 * [|Social Bookmarking Tools] wiki by Quentin D’Souza
 * [|Redesigning the Research Assignment] by Lucie deLaBruere at the [|Infinite Thinking Machine] blog

Resources
[|Delicious Resources] (tagged delicious on Delicious) [|Diigo Resources] (tagged diigo on Delicious)

[|Resources on Social Bookmarking] (tagged socialbookmarking on Delicious) Embedded RSS feed below: rss url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/district6/socialbookmarking?" link="true" description="true" number="10" date="true" enclosure="true"

Building Your Network
Find other educators to add to your network in Delicious at the [|Delicious4Teachers] wiki.