1. “Del.icio.us Instructional Design” Integrating Social Bookmarking into your Library Instruction Felicia Palsson Instruction & Reference Librarian University of Southern California

2. O UTLINE What is social bookmarking/ the social web? How does Del.icio.us work? How can Del.icio.us be used in library instruction?

3. S OCIAL W EB & S OCIAL B OOKMARKING Two excellent resources: Clay Shirky, “Ontology is Overrated” “Five Weeks to a Social Library”

4. S OCIAL W EB, aka W EB 2.0 The key is tagging (“social tagging”)

9. P ROS AND C ONS OF S OCIAL T AGGING It’s user-driven: Builds community Generates niche cultures based on usage of terms It lacks standards and structure: Can get out of control Sometimes not descriptive (e.g. “beautiful”)

10. Writing 140 = freshman level Writing 340 = junior level C ORE CURRICULUM WRITING PROGRAM AT USC

11. C OLLABORATION WITH W RITING 340 I NSTRUCTOR She wanted: to use web 2.0 tools students to “seamlessly navigate between different resources” (web and proprietary) students to find like-minded researchers She said, “Can you teach Del.icio.us?”

12. How does Del.icio.us work? (live demo)

13. A RTICLE DELIVERY : S TEPS 1. Create a tag for your topic (“task tagging”) 2. Tag-as-you-go (through databases, web) 3. Create a feed for the tag 4. Articles are delivered to your feed reader / iGoogle / my Yahoo! / home page / blog / etc.

14. M Y AWARENESS ALLOWED ME TO … better explain subject headings show them how to create their own terms help them use their terms to organize resources

15. Subject Headings (controlled) Tagging (uncontrolled)

16. “Seamlessly navigate between different resources” = “Prevent information overload”

17. S OME W AYS TO U SE D EL. ICIO. US IN I NSTRUCTION Help students understand authority control (by comparison) and how library resources are organized Show that databases are not “separate” from the web (both can be tagged)

18. S OME W AYS TO U SE D EL. ICIO. US IN I NSTRUCTION Help students navigate “seamlessly” between different kinds of resources Show why networking is research, too! Teach article delivery and resource management

19. Questions?