Thing 7: Social Bookmarking (week of July 12-18)
The next Thing we'll be looking at is social bookmarking using Delicious, which will help you organize all of your favorite websites.
Watch this explanation from Common Craft and then sign up for a Delicious account. When you first look at Delicious, check out some of the "Fresh Bookmarks" and "Popular Bookmarks" to see how they have been tagged.
Once you've created a Delicious account, add and tag some of your favorite websites. Post your Delicious username on your blog (mine is lisa.wiebenga), then, once other people have started posting their Delicious usernames, add a few of your colleagues to your network. You can add me first just to see how it works. When you're finished, create a post and reflect on your Delicious experience. Do you see this as a useful tool? Would you actually use this? How could it be helpful in a school setting? If you already use one of the other social bookmarking sites, feel free to share that and your thoughts about it rather than create another account (but at least look at Delicious).
Discovery Exercise:
- Create a Delicious account and add websites
- add me to your network (lisa.wiebenga), then add a few of your colleagues
- Create a post about your experience AND post your Delicious username
Look at Stumbleupon; you don't have to create an account (unless you want to after learning more about it here), but this is an interesting way to see what the general public is discovering on the web. Click "Discover" and you'll see current sites getting top rankings. On the right-hand side you'll see a list of popular tags. Look around a bit and perhaps you'll find something exciting.
Diggo is another bookmarking site to check out. Diggo is quickly gaining popularity with new features like post-it notes and the ability to create thumbnails of saved link pages. Feel free to complete your discovery exercise using Diggo if you prefer.
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