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Social Bookmarking Presentation Sequence

Information R/evolution

There is no shelf!

Begin with Showing Livemarks: live addition of sites into del.icio.us

Good morning | Introductions

What we'll do today

Explore information, how networks impact the distribution of that information, and the role that information plays in personal learning environments
Showcase two social bookmarking tools, called del.icio.us and furl
Explain how they work
Explain how to take advantage of the network capacity of these tools
Creative Classroom Applications of both tools
Final Thoughts and Questions

My Essential Questions

The 5 Big Tools of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Flickr and Social Bookmarking

All permit content creation and/or content distribution, typically both.

These tools can form the basis of a personalized learning environment (PLE) where each contribute information to a central location (aggregator) through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technologies.

Our task today is to examine the role that social bookmarking has in learning

The two main tools that we'll look at today are del.icio.us and furl-these are the tools of social bookmarking

A movie will help explain what social bookmarking is: Social bookmarking from Common Craft

Exploring the del.icio.us interface

my bookmarks-the digital resources you save
my networks-the digital resources members of your network
subscriptions-the tags that you subscribe to
links for you-digital resources directly sent to you by your network members.

Expanding the concept of network

del.icio.us network explorer | as a methodology for visualizing a network
Livemarks | watch del.icio.us live
Public Schools of the Tarrytowns del.icio.us account

Getting Ready to add resources

Adding Resources

Tagging and Folksonomy | Tag Clouds

Furl

Classroom Applications of Social Bookmarking Tools

Additional Topics for Further Study

Using del.icio.us as a search engine

Subscribing to Tags

Example: Subscribing in iGoogle

Podcasting directly in del.icio.us

Integration with blogs

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