TAG!TAG!

You’re Delicious!!

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

How many websites are out there?

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us! Let’s play “what if”:

– You travel 36 hours to a small town in New Zealand and you are sitting in a Starbucks having coffee and wanting to review the bookmarked sites you used to plan your trip?

– OR– More realistically, you travel down the hall to another

classroom because you are a a “roving teacher”?

– DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR BOOKMARKS?

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

Portable bookmarks are GREAT…

–BUTIt gets better……

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!The greatest strength of Delicious is

TAGGING.You can identify a website with words of

your own choosing…..There’s no official taxonomy, no Dewey

Decimal systemReferred to as FOLKSONOMY

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

TAG

Looks like this…..

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TAG CLOUD

You can embed a BOOKMARKLET into your web browser’s toolbar….

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

Tagging in a social bookmarking world is a very powerful tool to use for searching…..WHY?

You and your network, the Del.icio.us community, can SEARCH using TAGS, keyword, person or popularity

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!AND NOW….You can “engage with a community of

learners”You can share your bookmarks with other

internet users, colleagues and your learning community

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!You can now find new websites that are

considered MOST RELEVANT and CURRENT by other del.icio.us users.

– PEERS

– COLLEAGUES

– FRIENDS

– FAMILY

– THINKERS IN YOUR CHOSEN FIELD OF STUDY

– OTHER LEARNERS

TRUST?You are responsible for the websites you

tag…make sure they are relevant to the topic because a seach of Del.icio.us will turn up ALL available sites.

Spiderman says, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!

WEB 2.0A new world where anyone

can contribute their ideas to the online community.

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!Classroom example:You can give your students an assignment

where each tagged page is accompanied by a question (in the description field of the tag box). Students answer the question from reading the website.

We are Del.icio.us!We are Del.icio.us!Departments within a school can create

their own department delicious logons…..think about the social studies department having their own resources, tagging convention relevant to their subject area and instant access to specific curriculum.