Sharing+Knowledge

= Sharing Knowledge and Social Bookmarking = You’ve found a great website, but you’re at school and want to easily access the site at home. You and your colleagues are tired of emailing each other every time you find a new website to share. You want to easily share websites with your students and their families. The answer, social bookmarking. From any computer with internet access, you can save, access, and share your favorite sites. media type="youtube" key="x66lV7GOcNU" height="344" width="425" Video from Lee Lefever of CommonCraft found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU&eurl

Some Social Bookmarking sites:
http://www.portaportal.com/ - to get an ad-free account costs $15 per year. (The ads that do appear are child-friendly.) Site can be private or public and you can also control which folders you want to keep private. It is an easy to navigate, uncluttered site that works well for elementary students and their parents as well. My site: http://guest.portaportal.com/ralibrary
 * Portaportal:**

**Delicious:** http://delicious.com/ - By installing their plug-in to your browser toolbar, you not longer have to lin in or copy and paste websites to your account, just Ctrl+D and instead of saving it on your computer’s hard drive, the site is saved to your Delicious account. You can also make your list of links private or public. Use tags (like keywords) not folders, to organize your links.

Other sites available :

**Diigo:** http://www.diigo.com/ - This site has the option of forming communities for sharing sites. You can also highlight entries.

http://digg.com/ - truly web 2.0 in that users can leave comments and vote on the best links/sites. You can add friends to your account to share info and add images and video.
 * Digg:**

http://flickr.com/ - The focus is more on visual sharing. A free account has limits, there is a fee for the more powerful Pro account. Flickr has benefits in that it is closely tied to other sites such as Yahoo and Picnik as well as Big Huge Labs and has it's own FLickr Toys where you can have fun with your pictures. You can create groups- private, invite-only, or public as well adjust the privacy and copyright settings for each individual image. Tags make it easy to search for images for students to use on projects. Author Unknown. (2007). From Geek to Gods: Why Have “Social Rock Stars” Emerged? http://socialmediatrader.com/from-geek-to-gods-why-have-social-rock-stars-emerged/
 * Flickr:**
 * Reading **** : **

Cashmore, Pete. (2006). Digg and the So-Called “Wisdom of Mobs”. http://mashable.com/2006/01/10/digg-and-the-so-called-wisdom-of-mobs/

Jackson, Lorrie. (2006). Sites to See: Social Bookmarking. http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

Lefever, Lee. (2007). Social Bookmarking in Plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Webb, Marnie. (2007.) Social Bookmarking Resources. http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/64211