Tastes Delicious !

Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking

Britt Watwood

Quick Poll

• Who Here Now Uses Delicious?– Or Other Social Bookmarking (Furl / Stmblr)

• Anyone Twittering Here Today?

• Show of Hands– Faculty?– Administrators?– Instructional Designers?– Tech Support?

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?

Del.icio.us Solves These Problems

Why Is Del.icio.us Useful?• Get to your bookmarks from anywhere

• Find more cool links like those you already have

• Share resources with colleagues or students

• Collect material for assignments, projects, refs

• 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

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Tag Clouds

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us• 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 Icons to Your Browser• Upload your existing bookmarks• Save Links• Start Tagging• Annotate• Settings

Find WebsiteYou Like

&Click “TAG”

Add Comments

Add Tags

Suggested Tags

Your Network

Saved By 139 Other…

Common Tags

Who First Saved?

Others and Their Tags

This Looks Cool…

Social Connections

Interconnections betweenGabriela

Grosseck, Eduardo Pierano,

and myself

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

Social Connections

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 (70)

Others’ Tags (390)

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

http://del.icio.us/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 ?

Resources

• SlideShare –

• Google Docs -

• My Email – bwatwood@vcu.edu

• My Account – http://del.icio.us/bwatwood

• My Blog – http://bwatwood.edublogs.org