Thing #13

Experience and thoughts about the bookmarking tools:

I perused Delicious, Magnolia, and Furl, and learned about the idea of centralized, shared bookmarking. The Delicious tutorial did not work, therefore I was unable to watch it and learn what it had to say, but all the other tutorials worked. I set up an account with Delicious and imported all of my existing bookmarks, and attempted to organize them as well. My thoughts are that as opposed to a bookmark page on a local computer that just adds the bookmarks as made, this tool alphabetizes them and keeps them much more organized and so easier to search.

Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance?

I can see the potential of this tool for research assistance, and it is also an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere.

How can libraries or classroom teachers take advantage of social bookmarking sites?

They can take advantage of these sites by being able to do their lesson-planning research both at school and at home and being able to combine those in order to have a more complete body of research. In addition, the sharing aspect of these bookmark sites is beneficial in that teachers and librarians can share their bookmarked spots with other professionals in order to gain even more knowledge and access to already researched and reviewed material.