Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

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Social Bookmarking withdel.icio.us
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What is del.icio.us?

• Social Software
• Store your bookmarks online
• Tag your bookmarks
• Share your bookmarks with others
• Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

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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.

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Creating an Account
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Adding new bookmarks
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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)

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An example of tagging
http//flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/26000468
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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.

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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

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Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

• http//delicious.com/tag
• Add the term you want at the end of the URL
  above.
• Use the plus sign () to combine concepts

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Tagging Shortcuts

• Items for a particular audience
• 4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, 4teachers, etc
• Items from frequently read journals or authors
• injada, innyt, inchronicle, inagd
• Items for people in your delicious network
• fordentlib, fortmjchat

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Tagging for Your Class

• To share this item with the rest of the students
  in this course, tag with this
• wikisummerinstitute
• To send to the teacher for the class account, tag
  with this
• forjgotto

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Your bookmarks
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Practice

• Add the Brush Curriculum Wiki
• Suggested Tags
• Curriculum
• Wiki
• Add Brush Public Schools webpage
• Suggested Tags
• Brush
• Schools

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Importing your bookmarks

• settings
• import/upload

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Editing a bookmark
Privacy Setting
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Tag Bundles

• Logical groupings of related tags youve used
• Create them via settings bundle tags

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Bundle Tags
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Renaming Deleting Tags

• settings rename tags
• settings delete tags

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Your Network

• Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list
• Add other users to your network to keep track of
  what theyre bookmarking

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Your Network
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for

• Add the tag forusername 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

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Links for you
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Subscriptions

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

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Subscriptions
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Searching
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Firefox Add-ons

• del.icio.us classic
• https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/153
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• del.icio.us Bookmarks
• https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/361
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del.icio.us classic

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

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del.icio.us bookmarks

• Replaces Firefoxs bookmarking system with the
  content of your del.icio.us account

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RSS in del.icio.us

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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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.
• 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

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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.

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Resources

• Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer
• http//www.slideshare.net/travelinlibrarian/making
  -your-bookmarks-yummy-with-delicious