Social bookmarking tools are an emerging educational technology that
has been drawing more of educators' attention over the last several
years. This technology offers knowledge sharing solutions and a social
platform for interactions and discussions. These tools enable users to
collaboratively underline, highlight, and annotate an electronic text,
in addition to providing a mechanism to write additional comments on the
margins of the electronic document.[30]
For example, Delicious could be used in a course to provide an
inexpensive answer to the question of rising course materials costs.[31]
RISAL (Repository of Interactive Social Assets for Learning) is another
social bookmarking system used for supporting teaching and learning at
the university level.[32]
Social bookmarking tools have several purposes in an academic setting including: organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval; keeping tagged pages accessible from any networked computer; sharing needed or desired resources with other users; accessing tagged pages with RSS feeds, cell phones and PDAs for increased mobility; allowing librarians and instructors the capability to follow students' progress; and giving students another way to collaborate with each other and make collective discoveries
Social bookmarking tools have several purposes in an academic setting including: organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval; keeping tagged pages accessible from any networked computer; sharing needed or desired resources with other users; accessing tagged pages with RSS feeds, cell phones and PDAs for increased mobility; allowing librarians and instructors the capability to follow students' progress; and giving students another way to collaborate with each other and make collective discoveries
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