BP3_2009102_Social Bookmarking with Delicious

Grosseck, G. (2008). Using Del.icio.us in Education. INFOMEDIA, The International Journal of Informatics and New Media in Education. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://www.scribd.com/doc/212002/Using-delicious-In-Education.

Gabriel Grosseck composed and published an article entitled “Using Del.icio.us in Education. He spends the first half of the article introducing the site and its structure to novice users. For educational purposes, he highlights seven features of Del.icio.us that are helpful for use by educators and students alike. These features, in brief, are: Creating one’s on collection, managing marked information, personalizing, searching, researching for information, evaluation, and that of collaboration and communication.

“It is believed that [Del.icio.us’s] collective and spontaneous way of freely indexing Internet information offers a partial solution to the semantic Web… giving the power to the users.” (Grosseck, 2009) Grosseck’s discussion on the advantages and disadvantages can be summed up that while Delicious gives its users power to easily create their own learning or Internet environment and Tags, the versatility and lack of rules for Tagging also prevents a complete search while adding a level of chaos due to lack of consistency and control.

It was not until the very end of the paper that Grosseck began to discuss hoe the web service could support teaching and learning; however, the limited insight that he expresses is worth the wait for an educator new to such tools. Page after page he lists Del.icio.us’s powerful impact to the world of education. From management of research directed from student to teacher all the way to a mechanism for informal, formative feedback; Del.icio.us has the potential to make learning and teaching easier, faster, and more collaborative.

Emapey. (2008, July 19). Using De.icio.us in education. Message posted to Online Sapiens: http://onlinesapiens.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/using-delicious-in-education/

Emapey believes that “Delicious is one of the most useful Web 2.0 tools!” (Emapey, 2008) This remark is further proved thorough the extensive list of useful resources to promote and understand the program. (A list that seems to clarify and prioritize Google’s thousands of sites when searched.) The list provided at this site is very helpful to the Web 2.0 researcher.

Check out these titles:

- Del.icio.us help
- My Favorite Feed Reader is My Del.icio.us Network
- Use Del.icio.us to Create Your Eportfolio
- Del.icio.us Networking Features
- Networking With Del.icio.us in Education
- Social Bookmarking Makes You Useful and Connected
- The Del.icio.us Lesson – Bokardo
- Del.icio.us Is The Recommendation Service For The Internet
- Know When People Bookmark You on Del.icio.us
- Tracking My Own Published Articles
- How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us
- Who Says Librarians (and Teachers) Don’t Like Tags
- “Interview With Experts: What’s so cool about del.icio.us?”
- Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us
- del.icio.us as a PR measurement tool
- Tips for Using Delicious In (Doctoral) Research
- del.icio.us libraries
- A discussion of strategies for managing social bookmarking teaching and learning activities (using del.icio.us)
- How Delicious is Changing Academic Research
- Visualizing Del.icio.us Networks
- del.icio.us Tips, Part-2: day-to-day use
- A reputation economy via “via:”?
- Del.icio.us Network Explorer

You can start building your del.icio.us network. Join the EdTechTalk Del.icio.us network. You can also continue networking by joining some fans in the del.icio.us/network/edtechtalk

(Emapey, 2008)

I delved into many of the above listed as I pondered weather or not to change my shared findings, then I realized that the learner interested in the many educational uses of Del.icio.us would find it more helpful to know the specific topics available on the program, rather than only being able to review my particular choices.

LeFever, L. & S. The Common Craft Show. (2007, August). Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Common Craft’s video on Social Bookmarking highlights Del.icio.us as an easy and organized way to save and share your Internet research. The discussion on this video specifically uses teachers as the example. The downside to this video is that the images are not always clearly readable in that the images are merely paper under a camera. However, the benefits of such a short and simple film are: it presents the material in a smile way that anyone can understand; the material is concise and thus not overwhelming in content, relatable examples are given throughout; and lastly, this film leads its viewers through the simple process of making Del.icio.us a part of their own Internet environment.

As a classroom teacher, I could see myself posting this video to my website and explaining it to students, so that we could use Del.icio.us to organize our classroom Web research.