Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Social Bookmarking: Delicious

Social bookmarking: Collecting and Sharing

resources

By the end of this e-torial, you will be able

to:

Explain what social bookmarking is and

how it can benefit you as a subject advisor

Create a Delicious account

Bookmark resources using tags

Create a learning and sharing

bookmarking network.

This e-torial make use of the following

programmes or tools:

A Web browser (eg Internet Explorer or

Firefox)

www.delicious.com (Online tool)

Outcomes

Tools

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Social Bookmarking: Delicious

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Bookmarking contexts

Thembi stored her favourite bookmarks

on her computer, but it recently “crashed”

and she has lost it all!

Paul needs to share all his work related

online research with his colleagues and

is looking for a quick way to do it

Bookmarking is the practice of saving the address of a Web site resource you wish to visit in the future, on your computer.

Sarah needs to access her bookmarks

from both her office and home computer

and needs a central place to keep track

of things.

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Bookmarking: Delicious

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving website addresses to a public online Web site, “tagging” them with keywords of your choice and adding descriptions for quick reference.

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You can access your bookmarks from any computer, home or work as long as you have internet access

You can share your bookmarks with your network, colleagues or people who value your internet research!

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Social Bookmarking: Delicious

Bookmarks

Tags

Network of people

Refers to the actual

web resources that you want to

save

Colleagues, friends, or people with the same

interests as you

Tags help you to find a resource again, so choose

them wisely

Delicious is a very easy to use social bookmarking system that revolves around your bookmarks, your network of people and the tags that you choose.

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Creating your bookmarking platform

Go to http://delicious.com/in your browser

Click on

Complete all the details Copy the security letters

exactly Tick that you agree Hit the Register key

The first step is to register for a Delicious account

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Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Step 2: Installing quick-save buttons

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You may skip this step and start bookmarking!

Step 3: Import the bookmarks from your computer

Click on Add buttons

Click on Run in the pop-up File

download window

You will be asked if you want to

run the software, click Run

You will be prompted to save

the programme in a file on your

computer

It will ask you to close all

browser windows

Close the install window on

completion and open up your

browser to continue with step 3

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Step 3: Importing bookmarks

You may skip this step and start bookmarking!

Now for saving and sharing some good resources……

If you have bookmarks stored in your browser, you can use this tool to transfer a copy of them into Delicious.

Click on Import Now You will get a

message when the import has been completed

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Saving a new bookmark

Quick. Find a page to

bookmark!!!

The secret of good bookmarking for education is to be connected to the right people…….

The URL will be filled in

Make sure that the title is relevant.

Give a description

Add a few tags

Save

Click on the TAG button

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Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Creating a learning network

The best way to get started is to follow colleagues or “experts” in your field……

I store my knowledge

in my friends!!!!

Stephen Downes

If you find a “learning partner”, add them to your network….

How do I find people that I can relate to eg

teachers?

Read blogs within your field of

expertise.

Good authors WILL have

Delicious accounts

Look out for their del.icio.us

usernames

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Creating a learning network

Once you find someone that you think you could learn with/from… Look through their

bookmarks and tags to see if you would like him/her in your network

Click on a few of the people in theirnetwork to see if this person is learn-worthy

You can always remove them if they

do not “perform”

The best way to get started is to follow colleagues or “experts” in your field……

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Finding resources to bookmark

I store my knowledge

in my friends

Stephen Downes

Which of these bookmarks would you

like to save for yourself?

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Each bookmark have a title, description and most importantly…..tags

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

What are tags?

Tags are one-word descriptors that can help you to organize, and find them again.

As you choose them yourself they are more relevant

They do not form a hierarchy

You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like- the more tags the easier it will be to find again!

So, tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders.

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Saving with tags

Search for your favourite topic eg

You can also subscribe to a favourite tag

You can see how popularthe resource is

Click on SAVEif you find a worthwhile resource

Take note of what tags are being used

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Activity: Planning your tagging

Tags can be shown as tag-clouds or lists (Difference?)

The main objectives are: To find your

resource/webpage again To allow others (your

teachers/colleagues..) to find specific bookmarks

To organise your tags into bundles for easy management

Investigate the following people’s tags:

maggiev |carbru |jrosarioand discuss the following:1. What can you say about

this person?2. Do their tags makes sense?3. How can they better

organise/name their tags4. Think of some tags 5. How would you create tag

bundles for easier organisation?

6. Save 1/2 of the bookmarks for yourself.

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ACTIVITY

Basic ICT Skills: Saving and sharing resources

Assignment: Getting with the tag-habit

1. Find 5 learning partners by looking for relevant tags and add them to your network

2. Add 5 colleagues to your network

3. Tag 5 resources for 5 weeks, using 5 different tags

Give me a High Five!!!

This e-torial was developed by maggiev

for the Department of Education for use

by subject advisors and teachers.

All e-torials can be found on the

Thutong portal:

www.thutong.org.za

For more information about delicious, and to

learn more ”tricks”, go to

http://delicious.com/help

Basic ICT Skills: Social Bookmarking

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