Delicious 2.0 Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking

Britt Watwood

Quick Poll

• Do You Now Use Delicious?

– Or Other Social Bookmarking (Furl / Stmblr)

• Who is here• School / Discipline

Who Here Saves Websites?

Favorites Bookmarks

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

Problems with Bookmarks?• Website can have

only one bookmark– So did I save that cool

website on Twitter to:• Online?• Links?• Education?

Delicious Solves These Problems

Why Is Delicious Useful?• Organize your bookmarks with tags

• Get to your bookmarks from anywhere

• Find more cool links like those you already have

• Share resources with colleagues or students

• Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Tags

• Tags are like Tags are like keywordskeywords

• A website can A website can have have multiplemultiple tagstags

• You can You can searchsearch delicious using delicious using tagstags

Making Meaning From TagsWordcloud based onGettysburg Address

Browsing Tags in Delicious• 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

Getting Started

• Create your account (free)• Add Tagging Buttons to Your

Browser• Upload your existing bookmarks• Save Links• Start Tagging• Annotate• Settings

It’s deliciously simple!

Setting Up Your Account

Find WebsiteYou Like

&Click “TAG”

Add Comments

Add Tags

Suggested Tags

Your Network

Saved By 170 Other…

Note

Social Connections

Interconnections betweenGabriela

Grosseck, Eduardo Pierano,

and myself

http://twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/

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

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.

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

My Tags (104)

Others’ Tags (443)

Related Tags…

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

RSS Feed

RSS Feed

RSS Feed

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/network/bwatwood

Watwood         530 150 7 60%    

StudentItems3rd Wk

Tags3rd Wk

Bundles3rd Wk

Notes3rd Wk

Items12 Wk

Tags12 Wk

Bundles12 Wk

Notes12 Wk

OctTags

NovTags

Student01 28 24 6 100% 183 112 11 100% 100 43

Student02 8 7 0 100% 119 82 11 No 58 18

Student03 44 49 5 100% 104 48 6 10% 30 16

Student04 4 2 0 No 84 41 13 50% 37 18

Student05 48 50 8 No 72 74 8 5% 9 5

Student06 9 7 3 100% 70 24 7 66% 36 19

Student07 33 14 0 No 70 60 4 100% 18 8

Student08 20 30 0 No 67 15 0 No 41 1

Student09 20 7 0 60% 63 19 0 75% 18 4

Student10 18 8 3 No 62 13 3 100% 30 9

Student11 7 1 0 100% 61 19 0 60% 15 11

Student12 5 3 0 No 46 34 4 100% 24 0

Student13 2 2 0 No 45 25 11 90% 23 8

Student14 4 0 0 No 42 17 2 5% 18 12

Student15 6 8 3 80% 37 26 3 33% 28 3

Student16 15 3 2 40% 33 3 2 No 16 2

Student17 11 0 0 No 32 8 0 60% 6 0

Student18 5 2 0 No 30 16 3 60% 14 8

Student19 12 3 0 60% 20 16 1 5% 8 0

Student20 3 0 0 No 19 14 3 5% 8 0

Student21 6 10 3 20% 18 21 3 No 4 3

Student22 2 3 0 No 2 3 0 No 0 0

Class TagUse and

Persistence

(data as of 11/14/07)

SocialUse

(data as of 11/14/07)

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• projectbasedlearni

ng• reference• research

• resources• rubrics• school• science• spanish• standards• startpage• tagging• technology• teaching• tools• tutorials• upload• venezuela• video• web2.0• webquests• wiki

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

Questions ?