This document discusses how the social bookmarking site Delicious can be used for instructional purposes. It explains how tags allow users to organize websites and how tags can be searched. Users can see what terms are popular and find related sites through browsing tags. The document provides instructions for setting up an account and tagging websites. It also describes how one instructor integrated Delicious into an online course, having students collaboratively tag resources. Student use of tagging persisted beyond the course for personal organization.

1. Delicious !
Instructional
Uses of Social
Bookmarking

2. Who Here Saves Websites?
Favorites
Bookmarks

4. Delicious Solves These Problems

5. Tags

6. • Tags are like
keywords
• A website can have
multiple tags
• You can search
delicious using tags

7. Making Meaning From Tags Wordcloud based on
Gettysburg Address

9. Browsing Tags in Delicious
• 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

10. Getting Started
• Create your account (free)
• Add Tagging Buttons to Your Browser
• Upload your existing bookmarks
• Save Links
• Start Tagging
• Annotate
• Settings

11. It’s deliciously simple!

12. Setting Up Your Account

14. Find Website
You Like
&
Click “TAG”

15. Add Comments
Add Tags
Your Network
Suggested Tags

18. Social Connections
Interconnections
between
Gabriela Grosseck,
Eduardo Pierano,
and myself
http://twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/

20. Compelling Use for the Classroom!
• Collaborative and Creation
of Knowledge in New and
Surprising Ways!
• New Digital Literacy
• Added connectivity in an
online environment

21. 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.

22. Tag for Your Course
• To share this item
with the rest of the
students in this
course, tag with:
– TEDU560 TEDU560
Plus
– Descriptive related tag

23. My Tags (104)
Others’ Tags (443)

24. 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

25. RSS Feed

26. http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/network/bwatwood

27. Watwood 530 150 7 60%
Items Tags Bundles Notes Items Tags Bundles Notes Oct Nov
Student 3rd Wk 3rd Wk 3rd Wk 3rd Wk 12 Wk 12 Wk 12 Wk 12 Wk Tags Tags
Class Tag Student01 28 24 6 100% 183 112 11 100% 100 43
Use and Student02 8 7 0 100% 119 82 11 No 58 18
Persistence 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
(data as of 11/14/07)

28. Social
Use
(data as of 11/14/07)

29. 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