Week 4 Social Bookmarking

Several years ago, I took a course on Web 2.0 applications. I opened a social bookmark account with Delicious, but wasn't sure where to go from there. This course has re-energized me to use Delicious again. I added a number of professional sites that I have gathered. I also sent out an email to some teachers whom I know collect special sites. I am hoping to gather a core collection of sites. Then I will have a link to Delicious established from the Media Center's homepage and promote this to the staff through my quarterly newsletter. http://delicious.com/swhsmc
I used to have a place on the Media Center's homepage for recommended websites which were listed by subject area. It quickly became difficult to manage as sites came and went. I will be interested to see how things go with Delicious.
Social bookmarking sites offer libraries, public and school, another way to get good information out to their patrons. I like the tagging concept because often a site has many possible subject headings. Now all facets of a site are searchable and a site's order in a list or group doesn't matter anymore.
I am still thinking about the benefits of wikis versus social bookmarking sites for class uses. Maybe the concept of "versus" is incorrect. A teacher could establish a wiki for a specific unit/project and tell students to look at web sites on a Delicious page as part of their research. As part of their project, students could post websites that they have found and annotated to the class wiki. The teacher could review these and add any excellent websites to the Delicious account. Hmmm. This has possiblilites.