Yummy

Tasty

Scrumptious

del.icio.us

A better way to organise your

bookmarks

An Introduction to Social Bookmarking

http://commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Social Bookmarking

Bookmarks are not stored on your computer

Bookmarks are stored on the internet– Accessible anywhere you have internet

access (school, home, internet café at your favourite holiday destination)

– If your computer dies, grows legs or is left out in the rain, you haven’t lost all those great sites

Social Bookmarking

As the bookmarks are now stored on the internet, they can now be shared with others (the social aspect)– Colleagues– Friends– Relatives,and– People you don’t know

Just give them your del.icio.us address You can benefit also by looking at other

people’s del.icio.us address

Organising the Bookmarks

The bookmarks are organised using “tags”

Tags are keywords you create to categorise a website

You can use as many tags for a website as you like - just don’t have spaces in them

You find your websites by searching through your “tag cloud”

A Tag Cloud

Suitable Tags

What would be some good tags to use??– KLA’s / Strands– Stage Level / Year Level– Thematic words– Others??

Should we now quickly brainstorm some tags we will use?

OHPS Tag System

How to…bookmark a site

Easiest way is to install and use the buttons. Do it now…

How to…bookmark a site

Highlight some sort of descriptive text from the website and copy it.

You can also just type your own descriptive text

Click on the “TAG” button

How to…bookmark a site

Fill in the blanks

Finding a bookmark

Click on the “Your Favourites” button

Click on an appropriate tag from your “tag cloud” to find what you are after

A Tag Cloud

Finding other bookmarks

Go to del.icio.us/tag/

Type a tag word in the grey-outlined box

Enjoy looking through the results

Getting a network

When you come across people who have similar interests to you, you can add them to your network.

Can also view that person’s network.

Let’s Start

Get your sheet of paper which has the websites you like written on it (you do have it don’t you???)

Get your new classroom poster and hang it up near your SmartBoard today.

3-6 will go with Annie - use the OHPS Tag System we brainstormed earlier to start adding sites.

K-2 will come with me to do the same. Explore these bookmarked sites at your

own leisure.

I can’t wait, let me at it…

http://del.icio.us/ohps

Username: ohpsPassword: ********