Social Bookmarking withSocial Bookmarking withdel.icio.usdel.icio.us

What is del.icio.us?What is del.icio.us?

Social SoftwareStore your bookmarks onlineTag your bookmarksShare your bookmarks with othersSubscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Why is del.icio.us useful?Why is del.icio.us useful?

Get to your bookmarks from home, office, class, library, clinics …

Discover more cool links like those you already have

Sharing resources with peers, friends, teachers & others

Collect search strategies & information for assignments, bibliographies, projects

Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Creating an Creating an AccountAccount

Adding new bookmarksAdding new bookmarks

TaggingTagging

Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)

An example of taggingAn example of tagging

http://flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/260004685

Tagging TipsTagging Tips

Use punctuation for spaces (lower case)

Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term.

Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

The importance of taggingThe importance of tagging

“folksonomy”Ask yourself: What words might my

students use to find this item?del.icio.us will provide suggested tagsTags are searchable

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.usBrowsing Tags in Del.icio.us

http://delicious.com/tagAdd the term you want at the end of the

URL above.Use the plus sign (+) to combine

concepts

Tagging ShortcutsTagging Shortcuts

Items for a particular audience:4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, 4teachers, etc

Items from frequently read journals or authors:in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd

Items for people in your delicious network:for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Tagging for Your ClassTagging for Your Class

To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with this: ScienceMTTeam

To send to the teacher for the class account, tag with this: for:jgotto

Your bookmarksYour bookmarks

SearchingSearching

Firefox Add-onsFirefox Add-ons

del.icio.us classic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1532

del.icio.us Bookmarks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615

del.icio.us classicdel.icio.us classic

Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks

RSS in del.icio.usRSS in del.icio.us

All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available (Find it at the bottom of the page)

Ideas Around Social Ideas Around Social BookmarkingBookmarking

create a set of resources that can be accessed on any computer connected to the Internet

conduct research and share that research with your peers

track author and book updates groups of students doing a classroom project

sharing their bookmarks, a teacher subscribed to their rss feed to see the direction of their research. (FURL - teacher can review and comment on resources that are bookmarked)

Ideas Around Social Ideas Around Social BookmarkingBookmarking

resource teacher does a PD event with a group of teachers creates a shared del.icio.us account where teachers can post research and information bookmarks that they gather throughout the year. All members continuously benefit from this shared resource.

rate and review bookmarks to help students decide on usefulness of resources

setup a group tag in order to share educational resources

Ideas Around Social Ideas Around Social BookmarkingBookmarking

Unintended learning through the discovery of resources and information shared by others

Share links to current news items that relate to classroom discussions.

Examine the popularity of a web site that a student had listed and examine those who have tagged that resource in order to find new resources. (and perhaps unintended learning opportunities)

Ideas Around Social Ideas Around Social BookmarkingBookmarking

Share one del.icio.us account between a number of different subject specific educators or a school in order to share resources with each other. http://del.icio.us/district6

Share one del.icio.us account between a large number of educators across a school district that teach in diverse settings in order to create a broad and deep set of resources. http://del.icio.us/tcapsstaff

Ideas Around Social Ideas Around Social BookmarkingBookmarking

Students bookmark on a subject before a lesson (as a reading exercise), then review those sites after the ‘talk and chalk’ part of the lesson.

Students bookmark sites during a lecture, then review during question time.

ResourcesResources

Michael Sauers, Internet Trainerhttp://www.slideshare.net/

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