Rcat Social Bookmarking

Julie Hannaford Director, Information Resources & Services OISE, University of Toronto [email_address] Image credit to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hermida/1603854270 http://homespace.oise.utoronto.ca/~hannafo3/RCATSocialBookmarking.pptx

In a nutshell, RSS is “automated web surfing” – Dave Winer ( http://www.scripting.com/2005/09/11.html );

The content comes to you, instead of you going to it!

Subscribing to an RSS feed means that you can easily track changes and additions; it’s a great way to stay current with blogs or other RSS-enabled content

For a little RSS history, check here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

RSS newsfeed(s)

On Web pages or blogs, look for “subscribe” links, an orange square: , an XML symbol: , an RSS symbol: or

RSS feed reader or aggregator

A reader will store all of your feeds, automatically check for feed updates and allow you to read or hear the new content

Examples:

Bloglines

Google Reader

Microsoft Outlook

Edtechpost :

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Edtechpost

Note: you can use Manage subscriptions to organize your feeds into folders

Right click on the RSS Feeds heading

Select Add a New RSS Feed…

Then paste the URL into the box

RSS feeds in U of T’s databases:

Scholars Portal example

Be alerted when new content is added – follow specific journals or be alerted when content matches your research interests

http://www.library.utoronto.ca

Popular Databases

Scholars Portal Search

Run search, then go to Alert Me

use My Research to save alert

Similar capabilities can be found in Scopus, WilsonWeb, etc.

Tagging (adding keywords) websites, videos and photos, in a way that is meaningful to you

Sharing those sites and tags with others

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

Social bookmarking/tagging of websites

A good introduction: http://blog.delicious.com/

Store favourites in ways that are meaningful to you

Create a network of colleagues/collaborators

Subscribe to tags in subject areas that are of interest to you

http://delicious.com/help/tools

Search hints: http://delicious.com/help/faq#searching

Individual/institutional tagging

Researching and storing of sites: http://delicious.com/OISEOpenAccess

Build a learning community

Class chooses one tag and contributes to delicious using that tag

Class members recommend sites to one another

Build a class archive: http://del.icio.us/chem130

Use for group work

‘ notes’ field in delicious allow for commentary/quality notes about sites, sharing of sites during collaborative research

Use code to add list of sites or tags to Blackboard course

Course readings

Go to: Settings – Blogging to get code so that you can display your Delicious websites or tags in Blackboard (or any other website)

Link Rolls allows you display your bookmarks

Tag rolls allows you to display your tags

Adjust the settings to match your preferences

Choose a title

Choose the number of sites/tags to display

Decide whether to use bullets or not

Decide how to sort your content

As you make these choices, code is automatically generated for you

Copy the code from Delicious into Blackboard

Within Blackboard, you MUST use Source mode

Choose the <> icon to toggle Source mode on

Site that allows you to upload, share and tag images

Find useful images

Flickr works with: fd’s flickr toys

Display images in new ways

Use Flickr code so that your photos are displayed on your blog or website

http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne

Follow the selections to generate the code

Use to explain and illustrate:

http://flickr.com/photos/ha112/901660/in/set-129006/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/817669/

Allows for analysis via the ‘notes’ feature

Allows student commenting to build discussion

Search for images to support presentations – an alternative to Google Images:

http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/

Creative Commons

Virtual fieldtrips or any type of visual portfolio:

UI Design Samples

Book displays: Clemens & Alcuin Book Displays

A service that allows users to upload and tag videos that they would like to share with others

Search for relevant content to use in lectures/presentations

Record events/lectures, allow students to comment, provide analysis

http://www.youtube.com/user/universitytoronto

http://youtube.com/ucberkeley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMDCCdjyW8&feature=related

Tutorials :

Formatting a Research Paper in APA Style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFXrhdvnmw

Information Literacy: Identify Your Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2hziLTSyU

Social Software: You Are an Access Point by Daniel Chudnov: http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/39284

Using Del.icio.us in Education by Gabriela Grosseck: http://www.scribd.com/doc/212002/Using-delicious-In-Education

Using Flickr in the Classroom by David Jakes: http://www.jakesonline.org/flickrinclassroom.pdf

Web2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software by Michael Stephens: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/webcat/goto_catalogue_url.cfm?where=ckey&what=4182726