june 2009 - delicious ways to integrate technology into practice
DESCRIPTION
A workshop for adult literacy educators delivered during Laubach Literacy Ontario' s 2009 annual conference in Barrie, ON. The session introduced participants to Delicious, a free social bookmarking tool where users can save, share, and organize links to online resources. Attendees learned how to set up their own account, how to manage their links, and how to share their bookmarks with others. Support materials and reference sheets were also provided.TRANSCRIPT
Delicious ways to integrate technology into practice
Monika Jankowska-PacynaNancy Friday
AlphaPlus Centre
Session objectives
Quick introduction and movie about social bookmarking
Delicious account and bookmarks used by English Montreal School Board teachers
Quick training on setting up and using a Delicious account
Information on additional links, tips and resources
More than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs
Free social bookmarking web service for storing, organizing, searching, sharing, and managing information about web pages/sites
Users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share and organize them using tags (labels)
Bookmarks are usually public, but can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination
Account is always available online and the bookmarks can be viewed chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious)
Favorites/Bookmarks in a browser Delicious
Easy to access, but usually from one computer only
Easy to access with one click from any computer with internet
Hard to organize and manage as the collection of bookmarks grows
Easy to manage and organize using tags (labels) and search engine
Accessible to one user only Can be shared with students, colleagues, friends, and general public
Limited to one’s own research and information gathering
Allows for information sharing and enlarging the collection of links based on what others are bookmarking
You don’t lose them when your computer fails
English Montreal School Board teachers are using Delicious
Over 237 bookmarks (since January 29, 2009) 35 users in the network
Main tags include: • ENVIRONMENTAL-AND-CONSUMER-AWARENESS• HEALTH-AND-WELL-BEING• WORLD-OF-WORK• CITIZENSHIP
http://delicious.com/emsbliteracy
How does Delicious work? Navigation overview
Registering for your account
Adding browser buttons
Importing your exciting favorites/bookmarks
Bookmarking, tagging and sharing
Web-based tools and the new Common Core Basic Education Program
Account set-up
Your user name is “you“ like in “emsbliteracy's Bookmarks”
Passwords:• Must have at least 6 characters• At least one symbol or number• Cannot contain any part of your username
Make a note of your user name and password
Type the letters in the image
Check the box to agree to terms and conditions
Web-based tools and the new Common Core Basic Education Program
Bookmark sites (1) Tag Web sites (2) Annotate bookmarks (3)
Edit bookmarks and tags (4)Search bookmarks and tags (5) Create and use Networks (6)
Let’s learn how to:
Other links, tips and resources
Delicious Handout - http://pdf.alphaplus.ca/emsb/handouts/delicious.pdf Handout with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a Delicious account.
AlphaPlus’ Delicious account - http://delicious.com/alphapluscentre New account to bookmark information and resources we find.
AlphaPlus Web Index - http://webindex.alphaplus.ca/ A collection of over 1000 annotated web-based resources on all aspects of Adult Basic Education (ABE). This year we hope to transition it into a Delicious account.
Thank you for your participation!
www.alphaplus.caEmail: [email protected]
Tel: 1-800-788-1120 x 117