BP5_2009121_SocialBookmarking

Social bookmarking is used for sharing resources and research with other peers. It is a great way for collaborating with others. As a teacher, if you have students who are doing a group project you can subscribe to their rss feed to make sure they are headed in the right direction with their research. Teachers can also share research to help out students. As is written in Teaching Hacks website (http://www.teachinghacks.com), most of the social bookmarking services are free and is a great way of organizing some of the web sites.

Besides Delicious, some of the other social bookmarking websites I found were Mixx and StumbleUpon. Mixx is user-driven and helps users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It consists of social networking, bookmarking and blogging. It has a Mixx Community where you can join groups like Women's Things, Recipes for everyone, Food and Travel, and so on. The other tabs are popular, news, business, entertainment, sports, life, health, tech, science, and fun. There is basically something for everyone on Mixx. (www.mixx.com)

StumbeUpon helps you to share and discover websites. You click on Stumble! and the site delivers pages to match your personal preferences. Then it shares the site with people who have the same interests as you. This is also a great way to meet others who share the same interests as you. The initial home page asks you what interests you and then it matches sites with your interests. (www.stumbleupon.com)