Social Bookmarking:Diigo - del.iciou.us - Symbaloo - Google Bookmarks
These are all Web 2.0 sites that offer a service enabling users to use tags to bookmark, or save, the locations of their favorite web pages. Delicious, created in 2003, was one of the earliest sites to offer social bookmarking. Symbaloo was launched in 2007.
Your bookmarks are traditionally available to you only on the computer and in the browser in which they were originally saved. This may pose problems if you use different computers to browse the web, perhaps at home, at work, or at school.
Activity #1 - Create a Symbaloo Account
When you register to use Symbaloo, you gain access to a slick user interface that allows you to create webmixes of your favorite Web sites. The Symbaloo interface looks a bit like a high-tech Scrabble board with movable “tiles” on it. These tiles give you access to all your favorite Web pages.
Symbaloo is a great learning tool for a number of reasons:
• It’s easy to use
• A learner can pull information that’s personally useful to him/her
• Learners can personalize tiles to make them easy to spot
Following a short video about Symbaloo, we will create an account and begin adding "tiles" to your own Symbaloo page or webmix. Have fun adding tiles for your favorite websites. If a tile is not already available for a website, try creating your own tile. I added one for the Abilene School District website.
Activity #2 - Take a screen shot of your Symbaloo webmix (Command-Shift-4). Write a blog post that describes "social bookmarking" and include the picture of your webmix. Include answers to the following questions in your post:
• Did you like Symbaloo?
• Do you think you would use Symbaloo in the future?
