Advantages+to+Teachers

Bookmarking can help students to find alternative way of locating useful information. Students are used to using Google, or Bing to find sources of information. While these can useful sites, it often produces lists that are not as effective as bookmarking can be. In the classroom, there are some great ways to use social bookmarking. [|McGraw Hill’s Technology Today] has developed a great list of ways that teachers can use social bookmarking in their classroom.
 * 1) **//ClassroomManagement -//** Students and teachers can move from one computer to another and still have full access to their bookmarks. Students and teachers will be less likely to forget the location of the sites they have used.
 * 2) **//Collaboration-//** Students can share their bookmarks with their classmates. Students and teachers can also share collections of bookmarks they have found to be worthwhile.
 * 3) **//News Gathering-//** Social bookmarking sites can also help students to quickly find links to important current events and historical events. Some bookmarking sites allow students to subscribe to news feeds on a particular subject of interest. They can then go daily to this site to find the most current news on the subject. For a definition of news feeds go to:  [] .)

When using bookmarking sites for groups, it is a good idea to come up with common tags so that searches can be effective and tagging consistent. It would also be a great activity to have targeted subject matter searches for good resources and technology tools.

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