Social Bookmarking:  Del.icio.us

Introduction

Social bookmarking puts your ‘favorites’ list on wheels!  Since most of us use several different computers throughout the day--computers at home, in the classroom, the library, the computer lab-- sites like del.icio.us provide access to our favorites from any computer.  More importantly you can share content-rich websites you select with your students.  And even more importantly--your students can also select, share, and evaluate information using social bookmarks.

Other popular social bookmarking websites include furl, stumbeupon, and diig.

Definitions/New Vocabulary

Folksonomy—from ‘folks’—people and ‘–onomy’, management.  People collaborating to organize information into categories.   Synonyms:  Collaborative tagging, classification, social indexing, social tagging, labeling.

Social bookmarking-- The ability to save bookmarks (favorities) to a public website and tag them with keywords.

Tag— a keyword used to describe a digital object

Quick Start Guide

Wesley Freyer’s:  A Quick Start Guide to Del.icio.us

Multimedia Resources (Presentation, Podcast, or Video)

          SlideShare presentation:  Social Bookmarking by Judy O’Connell (2007)

YouTube Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Lesson Plan Ideas

• Social Bookmarking Tools from Teachinghacks.com

Review  

Class Assignment

1. Select a school-related subject—maybe a unit you teach…
2. Before you begin Googling, jot down a handful of tags you could apply to your subject
3. Start Googling, and continue to modify and grow your tags
4. Tag a minimum of 20 sites with at least 3 tags per site
5. Try bundling your tags
6. Go to the People tab, then My Network, then on the right in the blue box, click add a user to network, and type “itsallaboutinfo” in the box.