Social+Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a tool that can be used to organize, store and highlight websites on a particular topic. This could be used in my classroom for group work and various research projects. It could work to share ideas among members and organize thoughts. Below I have listed the 3 sites that I evaluated in order of which I found to be most effective for my teaching purposes according to the rubric I developed.

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 * Diigo:**
 * Purpose:** Social Bookmarking site used to bookmark, highlight, tag and add sticky notes to different web pages.
 * Features:** Post articles, create a profile and groups, share websites and important articles, comment on posts, and give feedback to other users.

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 * Evernote:**
 * Purpose:** Social bookmarking site to organize ideas and websites in specific categories to keep for yourself or share with work colleagues.
 * Features:** Can sync with many devices, remembers pages and topics that you like, saves your favorite web pages, organize personal (travel itineraries) and professional information, research better (upload many sources including snapshots so they are located in one place) and share your notes with friends, family and colleagues.

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[] After reviewing these websites I found that the best tool for my grade 4 classroom would be the Diigo website. This tool was easy to set up, easy to navigate through, has a similar layout to Facebook (which my students are proficient in using) and allows for a lot of teacher-student and student-student feedback through the use of comments and sharing links. I can particularly see this being used for our Native Americans research project and Biographies research to allow for collaboration and a sharing of valuable resources. It will also help keep my students accountable for their work and help in the process of learning how to properly cite their sources. Delicious was a good site but contained a more confusing format with content that may not be appropriate for 4th graders. Whereas Evernote was very user friendly but I feel that my students would be more engaged with the Diigo as the format resembles that of Facebook, which they are familiar with and excited to use.
 * Delicious:**
 * Purpose:** To store, share and discover web bookmarks.
 * Features:** Tag sites and share information, form “stacks” of related topics to share with others, and create popular pages. This site would be great for middle school and high school students but shares content that may be too advanced or inappropriate for elementary school students.
 * Compare and Contrast:**

Here is a [|link] to the rubric I developed and my analysis of these 3 programs!