del.icio.us searching for Great Results

I was talking to someone teaching an Information Literacy course and found out that the course centers around various search engines, search terms, boolean searching, validating sources, researching and writing a research paper. They cover search engines, metasearch engines, subject guides, and specialized tools (databases within one’s field). They use many online academic databases.

I noticed that they did not include the resource of 21st century Web 2.0 social bookmarking. In sites such as del.icio.us, people share their bookmarks so that you can search bookmarks of others just like you would search a search engine. You can see how many others have linked to each bookmark. Social marking gives us another tool to use in searching for useful information. See what others have already found for you!

How do you use social bookmarking in your course?