Tastes Delicious ! Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking Britt Watwood

Quick Poll Who Here Now Uses Delicious? –Or Other Social Bookmarking (Furl / Stmblr) Anyone Twittering Here Today? Show of Hands –Faculty? –Administrators? –Instructional Designers? –Tech Support?

Who Here Saves Websites? Favorites Bookmarks

Problems with Bookmarks? Locked in to one computer Difficult to have same bookmarks at office, home, classroom, on the road Sharing is cumbersome Typically by Sharing with and among students problematic

Problems with Bookmarks? Website can have only one bookmark –So did I save that cool website on Twitter to: Online? Links? Education?

Del.icio.us Solves These Problems

Why Is Del.icio.us Useful? Get to your bookmarks from anywhere Find more cool links like those you already have Share resources with colleagues or students Collect material for assignments, projects, refs Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Tags

Tags are like keywordsTags are like keywords A website can have multiple tagsA website can have multiple tags You can search delicious using tagsYou can search delicious using tags

Making Meaning From Tags Wordcloud based on eLrn08 Full Schedule

Tag Clouds

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us Tags are freeform and self-selected Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept –digitalnative –digital_native –DigitalNative –Digital_Native –NetGen –Millennials Watch delicious for popular terms

Getting Started Create your account (free) Add Tagging Icons to Your Browser Upload your existing bookmarks Save Links Start Tagging Annotate Settings

Find Website You Like & Click “TAG”

Add Comments Add Tags Suggested Tags Your Network

Saved By 139 Other…

Common Tags Who First Saved? Others and Their Tags

This Looks Cool…

Social Connections Interconnections between Gabriela Grosseck, Eduardo Pierano, and myself

Social Connections

Compelling Use for the Classroom! Collaborative and Creation of Knowledge in New and Surprising Ways! Adoption of Tools needed for New Digital Literacy Added connectivity in an online environment

My Use Online Online course 22 students spread between two states All were digital immigrants –Fear level was pretty high! Used live web conferencing to “demo” Set up functional tag “TEDU560” Required use in homework assignment for week 3.

Tag for Your Course To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with: –TEDU560 Plus –Descriptive related tag TEDU560

My Tags (70) Others’ Tags (390) Related Tags…

Delicious as Part of Class Culture Became common to see in homework citations Frequently commented by students, e.g. “Check the cool site I tagged in delicious.” I became conscious of some of my students personalities through their tagclouds

RSS Feed

Watwood % Student Items 3rd Wk Tags 3rd Wk Bundles 3rd Wk Notes 3rd Wk Items 12 Wk Tags 12 Wk Bundles 12 Wk Notes 12 Wk Oct Tags Nov Tags Student % %10043 Student % No5818 Student % %3016 Student04 420No %3718 Student No727485%95 Student % %3619 Student No %188 Student No67150No411 Student % %184 Student No %309 Student % %1511 Student12 530No %240 Student13 220No %238 Student14 400No421725%1812 Student % %283 Student %3332No162 Student No328060%60 Student18 520No %148 Student %201615%80 Student20 300No191435%80 Student %18213No43 Student22 230No Class Tag Use and Persistence (data as of 11/14/07)

Social Use (data as of 11/14/07)

Related Tags Used with TEDU560 assessment blogs clipart collaboration community constructivism copyright culture cyberhunt ecuador education esl fairuse free funny games geek geography hosting howto internet jamica language learning lessonplans math music nets online pbl personality presentation projectbasedlearning reference research resources rubrics school science spanish standards startpage tagging technology teaching tools tutorials upload venezuela video web2.0 webquests wiki

Summary Delicious works for sharing of resources Valuable tool professionally Connections with Colleagues & Students Learning curve takes some time My own – 4 months My students – 4 weeks Most students adopted for personal use

Questions ?

Resources SlideShare – Google Docs - My – My Account – My Blog –