Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a new way to store your favorite websites. Instead of it being on just one computer, they are stored on a website so they can be accessed anywhere and everywhere. This makes doing work and research more easy in ways. Instead of having to write down each website you want to visit, you can just tag it and access it from anywhere, whether that's at work, school, library or a friend's house. Social bookmarking becomes social in the means that social bookmarking is public. Everyone can see your bookmarking website and all of your tags and you can see everyone else's as well. This allows you to search for common keywords or tags for more websites on a given topic. Comments can also be made on tagged websites. This can come in handy if another individual finds something on the website, you never got to. Then they can tell you through a comment on the social bookmarking website.
Social bookmarking can help me in several ways as a student. Every college student has to write several research papers throughout their college career and in most cases you have to have at least 15 to 20 references. Social bookmarking can make gathering those references or websites easier. Instead of the old fashion, copy and pasting the url into a word document, I can simply tag the website and keep everything for my research papers in one place. It makes it easier too because sometimes I do my work at home, others I do it in the library and sometimes the computer lab; I am constantly jumping from place to place and with social bookmarking, I don't need to carry around a hardcopy of all my references because I am access them anywhere with a social bookmarking website. During my methods class I was always searching for lesson plan ideas, social bookmarking would have allowed me to tag those websites with good lesson plans so I could come back to them for a different subject instead of starting my search all over again.
As a teacher, social bookmarking can help with lesson plans. You can see what other people have tagged under lesson plans and find some neat websites you may not have necessarily  knew existed. Social bookmarking is a great way to connect with other teachers outside of your district for ideas and new activities to do with your students.