Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

What is del.icio.us? Social Software Store your bookmarks online Tag your bookmarks Share your bookmarks with others Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

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 Account

Adding new bookmarks

Tagging 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 tagging 5

Tagging 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 tagging “folksonomy” Ask yourself: What words might my students use to find this item? del.icio.us will provide suggested tags Tags are searchable

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us Add the term you want at the end of the URL above. Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Tagging 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 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 bookmarks

Practice Add the Adams Curriculum Wiki Suggested Tags Curriculum Wiki Add Adams 50 SBS webpage Suggested Tags Westminster Schools

Importing your bookmarks settings import/upload

Editing a bookmark Privacy Setting

Tag Bundles Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used Create them via settings | bundle tags

Bundle Tags

Renaming & Deleting Tags settings | rename tags settings | delete tags

Your Network Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking

Your Network

for: Add the tag for:username to send a bookmark to another del.icio.us user Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark

Links for you

Subscriptions Like your network but for tags Can be limited to a tag when used by a specific user Subscription | Add a subscription

Subscriptions

Searching

Firefox Add-ons del.icio.us classic del.icio.us Bookmarks

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

del.icio.us bookmarks Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account

RSS 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 Bookmarking 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 Bookmarking 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 Bookmarking 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 Bookmarking 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. 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.

Ideas Around Social Bookmarking 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.

Resources Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer an/making-your-bookmarks-yummy- with-delicious an/making-your-bookmarks-yummy- with-delicious