What *is* the point of social bookmarking?
Preparing a session on RSS, social bookmarking, etc. RSS–I get what is applicable to education about it. I haven’t used its full capabilities, and even now, I struggle with integrating my usage of information with various aggregators and such. And through a conversation with Nate last weekend, I had a duh! moment where I first learned that podcasting isn’t just fancy jargon for downloading mp3s, it’s the combination of mp3s and RSS that comprises “podcasting.” (I still say it’s jargon, buzz, a candidate for bullshit bingo, if you will). So preparing to describe the applications of RSS for IDs and in turn, how they can pitch it to their faculty won’t be challenging.
However, social bookmarking…I ran into a post about it over on Infocult, just when social bookmarking was coming to its status of “all the rage.” I tend to agree with the first commenter:
As one of those people who suffers through a large enough bookmark list that I need gdesktop to get through it…I’m not sure I really see the *point* of social bookmarking to begin with.
However, there were other commenters who explained how they were integrating social bookmarking into their instruction.
I know it is super-cool to be able to present an audience or a class with your del.icio.us tags—but how useful is it? How has social bookmarking changed how you teach or design instruction?
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