Social bookmarking has many uses in education. Based on the available research I came across in the EBSCO databases, school librarians seem to be leading the use of social bookmarking in education, especially in K-12 education. Delicious (www.delicious.com) is the most frequently mentioned social bookmarking site mentioned, though there are numerous other sites that provide similar tools and services. One advantage to using a site like Delicious for bookmarking is that bookmarks aren’t tied to a specific computer or a specific browser. For individual users, they have the benefit of being able to access their bookmarks from any computer with an internet connection. However, the greater benefits to Delicious are the ability to share and view other users’ bookmarks and the ability to tag bookmarked sites with searchable key words (Brisco, 2009, p. 61).
Once a user has a Delicious account and starts collecting and tagging bookmarks, the next step is to share those bookmarks with others. Teachers or librarians who want to share their specific lists of bookmarks with their students, colleagues, or any other target audience can use HTML code to embed Delicious data into a website. The advantage to this is that it allows the student or parent user to access the Delicious data while remaining on the school webpage (Darby & Gilmour, 2009, p. 100).
In addition to Delicious, other sites that provide tools for social bookmarking include Diigo (www.diigo.com), Magnolia (ma.gnolia.com), Backflip (www.backflip.com), and BlinkList (www.blinklist.com) (Shifflet & Toledo, 2008, n.p.). WebNotes (www.webnotes.net) is another example of a social bookmarking service that is being used by librarians to compile lists of resources and publish reports for target audiences of students, colleagues, and administrators (Harris, 2009, p. 14).
References
Brisco, S. (2009). A 2.0 TOOLKIT. School Library Journal, 55(8), 61-62. http://search.ebscohost.com
Darby, A., & Gilmour, R. (2009). Tutorial: Adding Delicious Data to Your Library Website. Information Technology & Libraries, 28(2), 100-103. http://search.ebscohost.com
Harris, C. (2009). What's Next for Social Bookmarking?. School Library Journal, 55(2), 14. http://search.ebscohost.com
Shifflet, R., & Toledo, C. (2008). Extreme Makeover: Updating Class Activities for the 21st Century. Learning & Leading with Technology, 35(8), 34-35. http://search.ebscohost.com
Which one of the tools that you mentioned might be most useful to you as a teacher in music education?
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