Social Bookmarking

Does social bookmarking have an application in your classroom? Whare are some ways it could benefit you and your students? Can it help you now as a student... how?

I feel as thought social bookmarking can only really work in the upper level classes, specifically with student interaction. I want to teach the younger grades, such as Pre-K and Kindergarten, and I feel as though it would be very difficult to have them use some type of social bookmarking at such a young age. However, I as the teacher may be able to use it as a way of organizing specific sites that I use, and possibly to share with other teachers through the use of tagging. Older students however can use social bookmarking for themselves. I think they would be very helpful through the use of a group research project. Students can each do their own research, and then tag their group members so that they can read and check the information as well. Through the use of bookmarking students are able to be less focused on the search, which saves time, and more focused on the actual content that is being researched. We are using social bookmarking in our class now. We are able to see the readings that are required from various sites, all on one site. Just as I stated earlier how students in the classroom can use social bookmarking, so can college students. The biggest annoyance when I'm working on a project is research. And since I like to work on a paper or projects more than just one time, I'd like to be able to go back to the research I was looking at without the hastle of researching it all over again. Through the use of bookmarking, I could save so much time with the research aspect of my assignment.