Members' del.icio.us accounts
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking systems 'allow users to create lists of ‘bookmarks’ or ‘favourites’, to store these centrally on a remote service (rather than within the client browser) and to share them with other users of the system (the‘social’ aspect). These bookmarks can also be tagged with keywords, and an important difference from the ‘folder-based' categorisation used in traditional, browser-based bookmark lists is that a bookmark can belong in more than one category.'
(Source:Anderson, P 2007, What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education,JISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007, viewed 18 April 2007, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf)
A tag is a keyword that is added to a digital object (e.g. a website, picture or video clip) to describe it. This user generated labelling system has become known as a folksonomy.
Del.icio.us... a social bookmarking tool
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to keep your bookmarks, or favourites, online, rather than on your computer. This means you can access them from any computer connected to the internet. You can share your bookmarks with others and they can share theirs with you. Alternatively, you can select to keep some of your bookmarks private.
Del.icio.us resources
Overview of social bookmarking in education from the Western Australia DET
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/socialbookmarking/
7 Things you should know about social bookmarking
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
Using del.icio.us
This video by Elizabeth Davis explains how teachers and students can benefit from the many features of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXElviSRXM
Setting up a del.icio.us account
http://www.novemberlearning.com/default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=205&parentid=61
Comments (4)
Anonymous said
at 9:41 pm on Sep 6, 2007
Hi Di, thanks for sharing your link to delicious so that we can see what it is. It seems to be very useful. Time to try it and see!
Anonymous said
at 10:56 pm on Sep 7, 2007
Register for an account Margaret and add me to your network... then it's so easy to share links with people.
Anonymous said
at 9:08 pm on Sep 14, 2007
I'll have to work out what all that means Di. You certainly push me into action!
Anonymous said
at 9:39 am on Oct 6, 2007
Great to see the list of accounts growing here. I'm looking forward to picking up some interesting sites from you girls.
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