Sharing Your Favourites

In February 2007, the Netcraft Web Server Survey found 108,810,358 distinct websites. That’s 108 million different websites! And that’s not including Blogs. In July 2007 it was estimated that there were 70 million Blogs!
OK, so how do you find those sites that are relevant and useful to my needs?
First you will need to search the web, then bookmark or save and manage the information for later use and reference.
But…

• What happens if you are using a different computer and you don’t have access to your favorites?
• How many other educators are doing the same?
• Are you not re-inventing the wheel?
• Wouldn’t it be nice if you could tap in to the resources that others like you have book painfully bookmarked?

In this era of collaboration the answer is but one click away.
Wikipedia defines Social bookmarking as: “a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages.”
There are several Social Bookmarking Tools available but one of the most popular one is del.icio.us.

To learn more about Social Bookmarking and how to use them view the Commoncraft’s video on: “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” (YouTube) or (Blip.TV)

Now that you know how it’s done, why not use of one the many Social Bookmarking services and start sharing the gems you found while searching the Web.