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What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking lets Internet users share, organize and search links to web sites.

When using a social bookmarking site, you can:

• view your bookmarks from any computer, not only from a specific one
• share your bookmarks with others
• find others who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your collection

This video is an excellent tool to understand social bookmaking:
Social bookmarking in plain English

Social bookmarking and adult literacy

Using social bookmarking can enable adult literacy educators to:

• network with peer educators;
• create social bookmark accounts for a group of practitioners who can all contribute to the collection of links;
• allow educators and students to share bookmarks in the classroom and at home;
• collaborate and share bookmarks with larger communities.

How do I start using social bookmarking?

In order to use social bookmarking, you have to join a social bookmarking site. If you would like to sign up with Delicious, you can do it here: http://delicious.com/ (Click on Join Now at the top).

You can also find a list of other social bookmarking sites here: Social bookmarking on Wikipedia.

Why are we using a social bookmarking tool like Delicous?

To connect with and gather information from a wide community interested in adult basic education.

To explore ways of using social bookmarking that can be helpful to adult basic educators.