1. Tastes Delicious ! Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking Britt Watwood

2. 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?

3. Who Here Saves Websites? Favorites Bookmarks

4. 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 email Sharing with and among students problematic

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

6. Del.icio.us Solves These Problems

7. 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.

8. Tags

9. 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

10. Making Meaning From Tags Wordcloud based on eLrn08 Full Schedule http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/S9_5xLsOtha6BbU05fF0M2-

11. Tag Clouds

12. 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

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

14. Find Website You Like & Click “TAG”

15. Add Comments Add Tags Suggested Tags Your Network

16. Saved By 139 Other…

17. Common Tags Who First Saved? Others and Their Tags

18. This Looks Cool…

19. Social Connections Interconnections between Gabriela Grosseck, Eduardo Pierano, and myself http://twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/

20. Social Connections

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

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

26. 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

27. RSS Feed http://del.icio.us/rss/network/bwatwood

28. Watwood 530150760% 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 Student01 28246100%18311211100%10043 Student02 870100%1198211No5818 Student03 44495100%10448610%3016 Student04 420No84411350%3718 Student05 48508No727485%95 Student06 973100%7024766%3619 Student07 33140No70604100%188 Student08 20300No67150No411 Student09 207060%6319075%184 Student10 1883No62133100%309 Student11 710100%6119060%1511 Student12 530No46344100%240 Student13 220No45251190%238 Student14 400No421725%1812 Student15 68380%3726333%283 Student16 153240%3332No162 Student17 1100No328060%60 Student18 520No3016360%148 Student19 123060%201615%80 Student20 300No191435%80 Student21 610320%18213No43 Student22 230No230 00 Class Tag Use and Persistence (data as of 11/14/07)

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

30. 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

31. 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

32. Questions ?

33. Resources SlideShare – Google Docs - My Email – bwatwood@vcu.edu bwatwood@vcu.edu My Account – http://del.icio.us/bwatwood http://del.icio.us/bwatwood My Blog – http://bwatwood.edublogs.org http://bwatwood.edublogs.org