Social bookmarking allows individuals to share their bookmarks (including annotations) with one another and also allows the user to access resources from any connection to the web. The "social" element also allows users to make "those who bookmarked this site also bookmarked" connections.

Tools:

· Furl ( http://www.furl.net/ )—allows for more detailed annotations, archives/caches

· Del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us/ )

· Diigo ( http://www.diigo.com/ )—built in social element that makes sharing easier.

· Fleck ( http://www.fleck.com/ )—allows users to annotate specific webpages at the webpage.

· Stumble Upon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com/ )—includes ranking system

· Digg ( http://www.digg.com/ )—allows for more detailed annotation, includes ranking system

· Delicious Firefox Addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en -US/firefox/addon/3615 )

Resources:

· Social Bookmarking in Plain English, YouTube: v=x66lV7GOcNU

· Sites to See: Social Bookmarking ( http://www.education-world.com /a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml )

· Towards a Managed Social Bookmarking Environment in Higher Education( http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths /ajh59/005107.html )

· Criteria for Evaluating Social Bookmarking Tools ( http://www.iddblog.org/?p=5 )

How might you use Social Bookmarking in Scholarship ?

· Track your own sources

· Follow bookmarking of other scholars in your field

How might you use Social Bookmarking in Teaching ?

· Sharing resources with students

· Tracking students' research process through what they bookmark (and annotate)

How might your students use Social Bookmarking in their lives?

· Track their own resources

· See what others have collected on a certain topic/theme/issue (follow a chain of research)