The document discusses various social media and web tools including RSS feeds, social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Flickr for photo sharing, and YouTube for video sharing. It provides examples of how these tools can be used for staying current with news and research, collaborating with others, tagging and organizing content, and incorporating multimedia into teaching and presentations.

1. 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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. Edtechpost :

6. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Edtechpost

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

10. Right click on the RSS Feeds heading Select Add a New RSS Feed… Then paste the URL into the box

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

18. Copy the code from Delicious into Blackboard Within Blackboard, you MUST use Source mode Choose the <> icon to toggle Source mode on

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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