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 6: Activity 1

How does del.icio.us differ from Aggregator? How does del.icious differ from other search engines?

---A question from Maya---

I have been thinking about Google Reader and Del.icio.us. My understanding is, Del.icio.us is more like a "multi search engine", like "Dogpile" Fei introduced in class. If you search by Del.icio.us, you can only find the "category" instead of "detailed information" (like "Is ... harmful for teeth?").
While Google Reader is something like you order magazines and they will be "delivered" to your home when there are some new released. And again, Google Reader only offer you a big "category" of the information you have chosen.
Neither Del.icio.us nor Google Reader can offer detailed information like Google.

Am I correct about these notions? Please let me know if I have misconceptions. I would like to know your thoughts.

Week 6: Activity 2

Read the following two articles, and discuss how social bookmarking can be used in professional development and teaching.

Ÿ 7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking - EDUCAUSE

Ÿ Sites to See: Social Bookmarking - Education World

Other references

Ÿ Social Bookmarking Showdown

Ÿ What is “folksonomies”