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**Social Bookmarking**
A web page is created through a bookmarking service and then links are saved there to the users’ favorite sites. Instead of keeping long lists of favorites on a local machine, people use these Web sites to organize, rank, and display their resources for anyone else to see and use. Users can create a page of annotated URLs. You can add a sentence that describes the page and put in keywords to use for tags. These tags are attached to the sites and others can search for them and get back a list of URLs for sites tagged with the same keyword. People can connect through shared tags, and they can even set a preference to be notified when the other person’s list is updated. The power to this service is the ability to see the sites that other people with similar interests have bookmarked.  On [|del.icio.us] bookmarks are public and lists of how many people have saved that same site are visible and accessible, making sharing easy.  Students moving from computer to computer need a way to save their resources online. They may work in the computer lab, the school library, the public library, a group member’s house, and their own home. Without a way to take their marked sites with them, they could easily be frustrated. When groups of students work on a project, they can divide their topic into subtopics and each student can search for the information on hi/her part. Then the student can share his/her resources with the others in the group using an online bookmark system.  For lower school students, teachers can set up one site where they can list URLs for the students to investigate. The students go to that one site and use the links posted there. This takes away the possibility that they would type in a URL incorrectly. They also can’t lose their list as it is online. Another powerful educational application is teachers in the same department can set up a bookmark sharing site and easily share resources. This is a great way to setup and share organized and searchable resources for a department.

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 * Social Bookmarking in Plain English**


 * A Few Delicious Features**
 * Import all your existing bookmarks (a.k.a favorites) from your browser with a few clicks.
 * Access (and add to) your bookmarks from any computer! Never lose another link, email a link to yourself, or paste it into document for later access
 * Discover great resources saved by millions of delicious users with a **keyword search**, or by browsing specific **tags** or individual **user** collections. Try searching Delicious as an alternative to Google when looking for resources for a particular topic.
 * **Mark any bookmark as** **private** by selecting "do not share ." (Only YOU will see these sites when you are **logged into** delicious).
 * Let others do the work for you! Add users to your **network** to automatically track all their sites (displayed on a separate page from your own), or **subscribe** to a specific tag to see all users' sites saved with that tag (or just a particular user and tag).
 * Display bookmarks as a **list** or in a **cloud**, sorted by tag **name** or **frequency** of use. (The larger the tag in the cloud, the greater the frequency).
 * **Share** all your bookmarks with students or colleagues by giving them a **single URL** for your username
 * Subscribe to the **RSS feed** of a specific **user**, **tag** or **user/tag combination** (i.e. all of a particular user's bookmarks tagged with a specific tag) in your **RSS reader**, on a blog, wiki or other webpage.
 * Create a special **"shared" tag** to collect resources **along with others** for a particular purpose or topic. Here is what the RSS feed for the tag looks like, embedded in a wiki page. Imagine how you could leverage this for student research, sharing sites with colleagues, or for the school library!


 * A Few "High Profile" Ed Tech Delicious Users** (Not a Representative Sample)
 * Will Richardson - http://del.icio.us/willrich
 * David Warlick - http://del.icio.us/dwarlick
 * Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher) - http://del.icio.us/brightideasguru
 * Alan Levine - http://del.icio.us/cogdog
 * David Jakes - http://del.icio.us/djakes
 * Wesley Fryer - http://del.icio.us/wfryer
 * Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - http://del.icio.us/snbeach50