Social+Bookmarking

Session Objectives:
 Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Common Craft
 * Understand the benefits of social bookmarking
 * Understand the differences between the two main social bookmarking sites (Delicious & Diigo)
 * Create a Diigo social bookmarking account, install the toolbar, and visit some worthwhile sites to practice

Diigo 
 * My Diigo bookmarks
 * Blog post: [|Taking Diigo Beyond the Bookmark]

 Delicious


 * My Delicious bookmarks (same as Diigo - Diigo allows you to send bookmarks to other services automatically)

 Delicious vs Diigo

Why use social bookmarking?
 * Smaller number of bookmarks to search through
 * Websites are ones that humans, not computers, choose to share
 * Share links with colleagues or friends to use the "wisdom of the crowd" (all of us are smarter than one of us)

During this session you will be given time to do the following:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sign up for a Diigo social bookmarking account. You will have to access the email you sign up with to activate your account. You may also want to explore the benefits of having an educator account.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find Josh's Diigo account and request to be friends (optional)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search for a group. Suggested things to search for: iPods, iPads, SMART Boards, iwb, your subject area/grade level, your school district
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find other class members in Diigo.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add Diigo toolbar or Diigolet (for Safari) to your web browser
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search Diigo for new resources. Bookmark them for yourself and add links to our group page that you think would be valuable for the entire group.