I have been slow to get into social bookmarking. I'm actually somewhat conservative when it comes to adopting new technology... Social Bookmarking has been around for a long time. Basically, it is a way to share useful and interesting web sites with others. It is like saving a website to your "Favorites" in Internet Explorer... with the additional feature that you can add a comment as to why it is useful, categorize it with keywords that you would use to find it again, and you can share with colleagues and friends.
Scholar is a social bookmarking tool that integrates with Blackboard. You can look at bookmarks that other people have saved (other people who, because they are at academic institutions, have presumably picked academically useful websites). You can save your own bookmarks and decide which ones you would like to share with the Scholar community, or just with your friends, or keep private.
Here's the datasheet Blackboard created about Scholar.
And check out this online presentation, "From Tagging to Teaching" about using Blackboard Scholar.
Hmmm... I wonder if this embed part will work?
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