Social bookmarking can be a great tool to use in an English secondary classroom. During research projects, students can save bookmarks to all of their researched articles on their social bookmarks. That way, they will have access to them anywhere (combined with Google Docs, this would allow them to work on their paper from any computer). Also, the tagging system would allow students to organize their articles by keywords to make it easier to arrange their ideas.
Social bookmarking could also benefit me as a teacher. I would be able to see what sort of materials the students were bookmarking to make sure they are appropriate for the topic and the academic level. I could also use social bookmarking to bookmark websites which I might want the students to visit, as we do in EDU350.
Social bookmarking already does benefit me as a student. I have saved bookmarks from years ago when I was writing an essay in my senior year of high school. Recently I was writing another paper on roughly the same topic, and I was able to go back and find the articles which I had saved. The tagging system also helps greatly, as it allows me to organize my bookmarks by author, subject, or theme. This saves a lot of time when looking for an appropriate source.
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