Social Bookmarking

So, I am project leader, and my group is working on social bookmarking. I'll be honest, I had no idea what this was until I looked it up online and in our class book. After research, I understand what it is, and, to be quite honest, I am excited to get started on it!

Social Bookmarking, basically, is like having a list of favorites. You click on different categories which will lead you to websites that correspond to that category. My group's theme for our webpage is, obviously, English, Education, and Technology. Our main focus is to put together a list of useful websites for us future teachers, with a special focus on technology, since that is the class' focus.

The website we are using is www.furl.net. Check it out if you're at all interested. I suggest that others choose to do this project for an upcoming block. It's simple once you get the hang of it. In the book, the author was saying that teachers use social bookmarking in the classrooms. They compile bookmarking on a private site that only their students can view. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea, but I need to become an expert at it before I start thinking about using it in a future classroom of mine.

I'll update you further as I understand social bookmarking more as I go along...