Social Bookmarks

My general reaction to social bookmarks is that I am not yet motivated to use them.

I am also discovering that I am resisting on-line collaborative processes.  I understand that there is some consensus that our students will need collaborative skills in order to compete in the job market.  In other words:  preparing our students for careers requires that we prepare them to collaborate.  I understand all this. Nevertheless, my personal experience with online collaboration has been frustrating.  The amount of time it takes to collaborate - in my experience - competes with the amount of time available to do research on a given topic. Right or wrong, I would much rather write a paper by myself than to collaborate.

I recognize that this is a minority perspective.