Social Bookmarking and Delicious...

Social bookmarking ?

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a

public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking,

on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of

a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. To

create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social

bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of

your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or

private. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work,

notifying users when a URL no longer functions. Visitors to social

bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person,

or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification

schemes that registered users have created and saved

Delicious ?

Delicious is an online Web 2.0 social bookmarking tool that enables you to save URL’s(Universal Resource Locator) or web addresses to a personal account. It is a free service,and requires a registration.Adding extensions to your browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer) adds toolbar buttons that allow you to quickly bookmark web sites. Then, you organize them using tags to make it easy to sort or search, add notes, or share with others in your network. This tool allows teachers and students to save URL’s in a portable format that can be reached from any browser, and to collaborate by sharing these with their network.

Visit http://delicious.com or http://del.icio.usto get started with social bookmarking.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking helps in quick indexing by the search engines. It acts as bait to these search engines. Within a day of your submitting your website to these bookmarking sites, you can expect to be visited by all the major search engines.
• It also guarantees a lot of traffic to flow from these sites to your site. The best part is that most of that traffic would be targeted traffic. That helps in getting return visits, especially if your website offers good, useful content.
• Generally these social bookmarking sites let you submit a very detailed profile where you can list all your web pages and also post links to your sites. Thus you end up branding yourself.
  
  
  

Delicious in the Classroom

Anytime/Anywhere—It’s That Easy

·         Social networking tools like Delicious are not only brilliant for both remembering URL’s and

·         web locations, but it’s also way more accessible. It’s better than adding to your “favorites” locally

·         on your computer because your Delicious account is able to be accessed from any computer

·         you happen to have handy, simply by logging in at the web site.

·         Students and staff alike should use the tag keywords and notes to make retrieval of

·         saved locations easier. The more detailed and accurate the keywords are, the easier it is to

·         organize and search for resources.

Cool Collaborations

·         Delicious is also great for collaboration. The students and teachers all create a Delicious

·         account for each person, and the teacher creates a “class account”. The students and

·         teacher share their Delicious account names and add each other to their networks. They

·         also add the class account to the network.

·         Now when the students (or teachers) are bookmarking sites, they add “network tags”.

·         These are tags for their peer and class accounts. When they tag a site to a member of

·         their network using these tags, the new bookmark appears in their inbox for them to

·         either save or delete. Students and teachers can now share and collaborate on their

·         research and learning for any given project.

Thinking It Through

·         As a stand-alone concept, the idea of simply bookmarking a website is a lower-order

·         thinking skill. What’s great about Delicious is the advantages of properly identifying the

·         bookmark, using the descriptive mindset needed for tagging. This way, teachers can

·         clearly see the level of understanding of a project’s purpose in the student’s selection of

·         bookmarks. They also see how well they understand the content and relevance of a

·         given site, from the notes and tags that the student writes for searching purposes.

·         The teacher can also moderate the URLs submitted by students by saving or deleting

·         them. This gives teachers a good amount of control over content that may be deemed

·         harmful, inappropriate, or just plain irrelevant to the underway project. As this happens,

·         the teacher can more easily guide students toward making the right choices in their

·         quest to amass bookmarks for project research.