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Bookmarkz is a social bookmarking platform enabling students and teachers to curate and share their online discoveries. Bookmarkz has the same functionality of most other social bookmarking sites like; tags, RSS, multiple languages and security settings that allow for public and private bookmarks. 

"Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, allowing users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies."

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Bookmarkz

Features Include:

  • RSS feed support: global feed, user feeds, per-tag feeds, private feeds

  • Public and private bookmarks

  • Delicious and Browser bookmark import

  • Firefox plugin

  • Automatic QR Code generated

  • Automatic link shortened with URLz (our link shortening service)

What are the implications for teaching and learning?

Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to change how we store and find information. It may become less important to know and remember where information was found and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework created by and shared with peers and colleagues. Social bookmarking simplifies the distribution of reference lists, bibliographies, papers, and other resources among peers or students."

Why is it significant?

Activities like social bookmarking give users the opportunity to express differing perspectives on information and resources through informal organizational structures. This process allows like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities of users that continue to influence the ongoing evolution of folksonomies and common tags for resources. Using a folksonomy-based tool for research lets you take advantage of the insights of other users to find information related to the topic you are researching, even in areas that aren’t obviously connected to the primary topic. If you are looking for information about sailing, for example, you might find that other users saw a connection between sailing and boat repair, taking you in new, potentially valuable directions. These kinds of tools also encourage users to keep coming back because the folksonomy and the collections of resources are constantly changing. It’s easy to imagine assigning a value for individual resources, resulting in a ranking system that functions as a collaborative filter." 1

Tips for efficient bookmarking

Bookmarkz will make your browsing much more efficient, but only if you do take the time to feed into it good data and keep them current. In practice, this means that you should always:

  • remove from the title of a Web page unimportant parts like the Website name
  • remove from the URL any tracking parts, e.g. Feedproxy and similar codes
  • assign good, consistently named tags (the bookmarklet autocompletion feature is great for this)
  • use the inclusion and synonym markups for tags whenever necessary
  • enter a meaningful description (the bookmarklet will automatically use for this any text you select in the page you want to bookmark!)
  • include proper attributes in the description, like author, address or any other one you want to create

References

1. 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking,  Author  Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of British Columbia)

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