Social Bookmarking

I do believe that social bookmarking is very useful for the classroom, and at any level. Imagine you are in an elementary classroom and you keep having trouble with students going on to websites their not supposed to, or going to the wrong sites to gather information. This website, if applied as the homepage, could show the students the websites that they should start looking at and guide them to successfully finding the correct information. In high school the idea of social bookmarking could be even more important. As with elementary schools the list of websites and resources could be a guide to the student who is unsure of where to search, and just tries to use Wikipedia. Some students today do not know how to successfully search for information on a certain topic and social bookmarking is one way to guide students to the information. The idea of social bookmarking could be compared to the idea of a scaffold. Social bookmarking guides the students with direction from the teacher, but once they are acquainted and understand the teacher can slowly began to lessen the importance of social bookmarking and allow the students to go out on their own. As of right now as a student, social bookmarking is helping me find new websites and save them to a location that I can access them at a later time. I just developed my social bookmarking site on diigo the other day and I can not stop finding new websites to add to my library. I feel like every site that I go onto I find myself trying to add it to my library, even if it has no relation to my assessment for our social bookmarking project. One tool I find useful are the sticky notes that are added to the webpage that you are on. They show specific notes that other people may have added about that website or the information on it.