Social Bookmarking – Simply Del.icio.us!

Posted on June 5, 2007 
Filed under Social Bookmarking, delicious




1. What is it?

Social bookmarking simply means saving links to your favourite websites online and then sharing those links with others. The most common way of doing this is by using a free service called del.icio.us.

Here is a video from Common Craft that shows you exactly what social bookmarking with del.icio.us means!

2. Why would I use it?You need the name of a website, but it’s in your favourites list on your PC or laptop, which you don’t have access to at the moment…

You’ve sent an email to your students with a bunch of cool websites in it you want them to check out, except half of them didn’t receive it and the other half didn’t read it…

You’ve printed out a list of websites for your students, but they’ve lost the page and never bring it to class anyway…

Thankfully you’ve bookmarked all these useful sites online and they just have to jump on the internet at school or at home – no excuses!

10 reasons to use del.icio.us (from ‘Simply Delicious’ Online Social Bookmarking or: Tagging for Teaching, David Muir, EdCompBlog)

1.Save sites that you find when you are on different computers to one, central place.

2. Access your bookmarks from anywhere you have access to the internet

3. Continue to access your bookmarks even when your computer crashes or you get a new computer.

4. Share websites with your students or peers

5. Search your bookmarks with keywords or ‘tags.’

6. Use related tags to extend or narrow your searches

7. Display your saved website links by category

8. Learn about new sites from other del.icio.us users who have similar interests to you

9. Subscribe to others’ del.icio.us bookmarks

10. Check out recently posted and popular sites

Here is another excerpt from the essay mentioned above about what del.icio.us can do and how you can use it in your classes:

Deli.icio.us?

It is possible to use del.icio.us simply as a site for saving your favourites/bookmarks online but it is more than that. It is your personal website where you can store and categorise your bookmarks. You can use it for recipes, gift lists, travel sites and more. You can also learn what websites others find interesting. Del.icio.us allows you to save a link to anything you view on the web. You can also use it to share what you read on the web with other teachers or your students.

It has many educational possibilities (as listed by David Muir of EdCompBlog):

1. Collection of websites for student research or projects

2. Book recommendations

3. Professional research

4. List of books you would like to read or like your students to read

5. Placing weblinks on your school webpage

6. Students can find resources at home and access them at school or vice versa

7. Share what you are reading or view what your peers are reading on the web

8. Web site collections tagged by school topic

3. Ok, that’s all well and good, but how do I do it?To find out how to set up a del.icio.us account, you can go to the Tech Ease website for a series of short videos on each stage of the del.icio.us process. They are small files you simply click on them, wait a bit for it to download, and watch.

Tech-Ease: Video Tutorials – Del.icio.us

Happy bookmarking!

Other posts relating to this topic: Introducing the Web 2.0 World

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