Week 6: Social bookmarking lab

Explore the social bookmarking tool -- del.icio.us

1. Get Started

• Register and Install Extension

https://secure.del.icio.us/register?step2

2. Add URLs to your del.icio.us

• Add two links from "CEP416Resources"
• Change the name of your bookmarks
• Tag your bookmarks
• Bundle your tags

3. Share Your Bookmarks

• Enable “Private Saving” function
• Add others to your network
• Add Linkroll to your blogs

4. Find resources on del.icio.us

Week 3 RSS Reader and iGoogle Lab

(1) Try live bookmarks

(2) Use Google Readers

a) Subscribe classroom blog

b) Subscribe your classmates blog

(3) Search for RSS feeds and subscribe them

a) Use Google news search to find RSS feeds on topics your are interested in

b) Use Google blog search or www.technorati.com to find RSS feeds on topics you are interested in

c) Find RSS feeds in websites such as New York Times, NPR, and so on

(4) Organize your Google Readers

a) Put your feeds into folders

(5) Use iGoogle to personalize your Google homepage

a) Add gadgets onto your homepage: such as your Google reader, weather, movie…

b) Move the gadgets around

c) Create multiple tabs

Week 2 Blogging Lab

Basic:

- To create a blog

- To create a post that includes text, a picture, and a link to an outside resource

- To leave a comment

Advanced:

- To tag/label a post (Why do we need this?)

- To create “Important Links”

- To edit "About Me" page

- To add a picture

Bonus:

- To add writers/members

- To restrict the right of commenting only to the members of the blog