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 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

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?

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.

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 keywords A website can have multiple tags You can search delicious using tags

Tags are like keywords

A website can have multiple tags

You can search delicious using tags

Making Meaning From Tags Wordcloud based on eLrn08 Full Schedule http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/S9_5xLsOtha6BbU05fF0M2-

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

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

Create your account (free)

Add Tagging Icons to Your Browser

Upload your existing bookmarks

Save Links

Start Tagging

Annotate

Settings

Find Website You 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 between Gabriela 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

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.

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

To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with:

TEDU560

Plus

Descriptive related tag

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

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 http://del.icio.us/rss/network/bwatwood

Class Tag Use and Persistence (data as of 11/14/07) 0 0 No 0 3 2 No 0 3 2 Student22 3 4 No 3 21 18 20% 3 10 6 Student21 0 8 5% 3 14 19 No 0 0 3 Student20 0 8 5% 1 16 20 60% 0 3 12 Student19 8 14 60% 3 16 30 No 0 2 5 Student18 0 6 60% 0 8 32 No 0 0 11 Student17 2 16 No 2 3 33 40% 2 3 15 Student16 3 28 33% 3 26 37 80% 3 8 6 Student15 12 18 5% 2 17 42 No 0 0 4 Student14 8 23 90% 11 25 45 No 0 2 2 Student13 0 24 100% 4 34 46 No 0 3 5 Student12 11 15 60% 0 19 61 100% 0 1 7 Student11 9 30 100% 3 13 62 No 3 8 18 Student10 4 18 75% 0 19 63 60% 0 7 20 Student09 1 41 No 0 15 67 No 0 30 20 Student08 8 18 100% 4 60 70 No 0 14 33 Student07 19 36 66% 7 24 70 100% 3 7 9 Student06 5 9 5% 8 74 72 No 8 50 48 Student05 18 37 50% 13 41 84 No 0 2 4 Student04 16 30 10% 6 48 104 100% 5 49 44 Student03 18 58 No 11 82 119 100% 0 7 8 Student02 43 100 100% 11 112 183 100% 6 24 28 Student01 Nov Tags Oct Tags Notes 12 Wk Bundles 12 Wk Tags 12 Wk Items 12 Wk Notes 3rd Wk Bundles 3rd Wk Tags 3rd Wk Items 3rd Wk Student 60% 7 150 530 Watwood

Social Use (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 projectbasedlearning reference research resources rubrics school science spanish standards startpage tagging technology teaching tools tutorials upload venezuela video web2.0 webquests wiki

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

projectbasedlearning

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

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 – [email_address] My Account – http://del.icio.us/bwatwood My Blog – http://bwatwood.edublogs.org

SlideShare –

Google Docs -

My Email – [email_address]

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

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