Week5

Evaluating, Organizing and Sharing Knowledge:
Social Bookmarking, Social News and Tagging Del.icio.us, Diigo, Flickr, Digg

Resources

 * [|Del.icio.us]** - social bookmarks

provides: email-less accounts for students, students automatically become friends with classmates, special default privacy & messaging, filtered ads. (note: this is a beta and some of the features may be problematic - also, students can see ALL of the teacher's bookmarks, something which might change)
 * Diigo Educator Beta:** http://www.diigo.com/education (click "Apply for your Educator Account")


 * [|Flickr]**


 * [|Digg]**

Neat Firefox plugin for Flickr/Google Images/other: [|PicLens]

Reading List
Author Unknown. (2007). From Geek to Gods: Why Have “Social Rock Stars” Emerged? (Website). http://socialmediatrader.com/from-geek-to-gods-why-have-social-rock-stars-emerged/

Lefever, Lee. (2007). Social Bookmarking in Plain English (Web Video). http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Cashmore, Pete. (2006). Digg and the So-Called “Wisdom of Mobs” (Website). http://mashable.com/2006/01/10/digg-and-the-so-called-wisdom-of-mobs/