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Social Bookmarking for Teaching and Learning

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Social Bookmarking & Digital Curation During the course of preparation and research for this presentation, I learned that social bookmarking (Diigo) is a very effective tool for digital curation. Not only are we able to bookmark pages, images and resources, social bookmarking also presented to us a new way of doing research, especially in the light of collaborative and cooperative learning. Here is a list of affordances of social bookmarking gleamed from contributions from both the class and myself. 
 * Research
 * suitable for research based assignments
 * great research tool for both students and educators
 * quick and easy way to find information on any chosen subject, leveraging on other's sharing
 * suitable for learners who are able to analyze and evaluate learning content
 * suitable for mature students
 * allow self-directed learning to take place naturally
 * Knowledge Building
 * tool for documenting personal learning journey across useful websites
 * personal knowledge repository
 * great tool for enhancing an existing PLN
 * Knowledge Sharing
 * sharing repository
 * great tool for sharing resources, allowing highlights, annotations and notes to be inserted

A Personal Case Study As a learner and educator, I am delighted to be able to find ways to share and apply what I have learned about Diigo at my work. After learning about social bookmarking and Diigo, I shared what I have learned with my colleagues and started to encourage them to contribute into a shared space in Diigo as a group. Every week, we will take turn to pick up one of the more interesting bookmark and have a round-table discussion on how we may use the ideas, knowledge or information presented in that bookmarked page. This has gone on for at least a month and we have found it to be a great tool for knowledge and resource building.

Conclusion There are so many tools and applications available online. As educators who are continuously learning, we must be daring to try, test and discover what works and what do not for us and our students. This course in e-learning tools has opened my eyes to a whole lot more possibilities and great tools available for learning online.