Social_bookmarking. Bwerdmuller's bookmarks on del.icio.us. Rants and Ramblings » Delicious Tech Tip. This is technology tip number 1 for 2008-2009. I’m hoping this is a weekly tip or mini-lesson to help us become better at creating curriculum that hastens student acquisition of 21st century skills. While the NETS for Students are, in my opinion, the best articulation of the skills students should have (just as the NETS for Teachers define new expectations for teachers exceedingly well), it has been helpful to distill the student standards down further to four talking points or categories/goals to embrace as we redesign curriculum in light of our new one-to-one program.
Below are four areas to keep in mind as we design new curriculum: Inquiry, Research, and Information Literacy Students should understand how to identify and frame problems; find information and evaluate it for authenticity and reliability; adhere to ethical use stemming from an understanding of intellectual property and copyright; and be intelligent readers and consumers of information in a variety of mediums. From this. DeliGoo - Delicious Search Engine. How Delicious is Changing Academic Research. As of a recent post on Google Books and the research of History, our quiet little blog here on academic history, activism, and spirituality has suddenly gotten more notoriety than it's accustomed to.
Hi world! Thanks for stopping by. To carry on with the thread of how information travels for academics, and what the 'net is doing, let's talk about another of my favorite sites for research, del.icio.us. Delicious is the Rome, Jerusalem, and Paris of my existence as an academic these days. It's where I make my friends, how I get the news, and where I go to trade. Why? 1) it sorts things. For two years I've been using Delicious as an information organizer. The result is a navigable taxonomy of my thoughts. After a year of using delicious for my own bookmarks, helping other people find things becomes remarkably easy. Second reason delicious is cool: 2) it makes things public. Not only can you look at your own bookmarks, but you can also look at others'.
I don't check in with them. » del.icio.us not Tasty for Everyone techne. When I encountered del.icio.us about two years ago, it was the first taste of web 2.0 I experienced, and it opened a whole new world. I not only thought it was an amazing way to store my own web links, but to also connect with others that had similar interests who were also saving bookmarks on the web. The idea if social bookmarking was very appealing to me then, and it remains so now. This web-based practice is generally useful and convenient, but it is also a powerful way to discover new resources, build connections among people with similar interests, promote collaboration, and tap into a new way of organizing the web.
In many ways, I see it as a bit of a gateway experience to exploring new instructional possibilities and practices…if you get this one, the doors to the participatory web begin to open up. Clearly everyone doesn’t see it the same way. One thing I have been giving more thought to recently is the language and meaning surrounding the ideas of “social” and “bookmarking.” The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools. See also: World’s First Review of Streamy - The AJAX-based Digg Rival Tags - for some, one of the best ideas on the web, for others, merely a visual distraction. Yes, we're talking about those loosely defined categories which are usually organized into cute little clouds. Looking for tag-related resources can be tough, so we've dug up 30 tools and resources that every seasoned tagger should check out.
Tools Tag2find - organize the content on your hard disk through tags; ideal for Web 2.0 fanatics.TagMyCloud - a tool that creates a tag cloud from a text you provide.Tagfacts - organize your notes into tags.Tagcrowd - visualize a chunk of text into tags, based on keyword density.Tagcloud maker - create a simple tag cloud for your web site.Taglocity - need more clutter in your Microsoft Outlook?
Plugins Miscellaneous Semapedia - tagging meets real world.Mytago - a tool for decoding offline tags with your mobile phone.Snapshirts - Wanna show the world how geeky you are? Del.icio.us Tips, Part-2: day-to-day use at Sims Learning Connections. TeacherShare: Del.icio.us for educators at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk. Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection.
[Regularly Updated] Looking for the best delicious tools, mashups, hacks and services on the web. Delicious is a popular social bookmarks manager that lets you create and share your personal collection of links and categorize them with keyword tags. You can start by viewing the most popular bookmarks. Get started quickly by this Beginner’s Guide and learn about more quick ways of posting your bookmarks. Official delicious tools Tagometer Badge – easily display both tags and number of saves on your siteDelicious API – create your own del.icio.us tools.Delicious Blog – posts official updates about the service.Network Badges – allow you to display details about your del.icio.us network as part of your website.Del.icio.us Firefox Extension – Integrates del.icio.us into Firefox.Play Tagger – easily play mp3 files directly on your website or blog by simply including a tiny javascript.Buttons for Internet Explorer – Integrate del.icio.us right into Internet Explorer.
Share This Article: Google Co-op and del.icio.us! Update: Sorry, link is going up and down. Worth trying, but will try to find a more stable option when time cycles free up. This past week I decided to cook up a service (link in bold near the middle of this post) I feel will greatly assist users in developing advanced Google Custom Search Engines (CSE’s).
I read through the Co-op discussion posts, digg/blog comments, reviews, emails, etc. and learned many of our users are fascinated by the refinements feature – in particular, building search engines that produce results like this: ‘linear regression” on my Machine Learning Search Engine … but unfortunately, many do not know how to do this nor understand/want to hack up the XML. Understandably, we received several requests to support del.icio.us bookmark importing. Ok, enough talk, here’s the final product: Here’s a quick feature list: In my opinion, there’s no question that this is the easiest way to make a fancy search engine. Like this: Like Loading... Del.icio.us A-to-Z by Functions : All 150+ hacks categorized. Del.icio.us network explorer. Mike Stopforth » del.icio.us in the Workplace.
I love del.icio.us . But you already know that. Either you’ve seen my del.icio.us account , or you’re in my network, or even better, you’ve seen me present and watched me spit on the front row while dancing gleefully across the stage whenever the part about social bookmarking comes up. You see, del.icio.us embodies in one application all that is good about the so-called Web 2.0 movement. That is, more so than MySpace or YouTube. I mean that. And that’s all I can think of right now. Andrew McAfee has posted about a company, Avenue A | Razorfish , which uses social media effectively in place of an intranet (or rather as an intranet), and encourages their employees to tag info on flickr , digg or del.icio.us with ‘AARF’, so that all that info can be subscribed to and monitored by anyone else in the organisation. In the same way that wiki software can be effective behind the corporate firewall, social bookmarking tools centered around tags can do the same.