June 2009 - Delicious Ways to Integrate Technology into Practice

Delicious ways to integrate technology into practice Monika Jankowska-Pacyna Nancy 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

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:

June 2009 - Delicious Ways to Integrate Technology into Practice

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