Social Bookmarking

Before I read the segment on tagging, I was a bit confused about what social bookmarking could possibly be. Tagging, however, made it entirely clear given the rise of the hashtag. The term folksonomy was especially helpful for me in conceiving of the way users construct categories of information.

A social bookmarking website could be very useful for gathering a collection of student-safe web resources. Teachers could create a repository of websites that have been reviewed in advance for safety and reliability. Students could search through these collected pages in order to perform research at various levels without much concern they will view inappropriate material.

With the use I described, students would have to fulfill standard 2.a of ISTE-S by interacting with peers and experts and employing a variety of digital media to do so. Again with this activity, I feel like CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8 is directly applicable.