Del.icio.us Research: Redesign Assignments with Social Bookmarking

An interesting session on using Delicious to focus research through social bookmarking. The presenter was Lucie deLaBruere, St.Albans City School, VT.
Her blog is called LearningwithLucie.com

Lucie's presentation information is posted on a wiki at http://necc2007.pbwiki.com/

Suggested browsing: Infinite Thinking blog www.infinitethinking.org

What is Social Bookmarking? Saving webpages through your browser, tagging them, sharing them with others.
The Wisdom of Crowds
Teachers like to work smarter not longer

When you tag for other people you should write user notes, not necessary for personal tags.

Blog with students on the concept of social software

You could all login under the same account to work collaboratory project

Use the help menu in delicious.

Have students include their name in their tag, you can then mark their critical thinking.

You can set up your tags before the assignment

Bundles – to group things further

Tagging is like the parts of a book.

When you are in a workshop – as the instructor talks – open site or google book, you can then tag it. By the end of session you have a complete set of notes from the lecture.

Highlighting text on the webpage will have it appear in notes.

Lucie gave us many good ideas for incorporating social bookmarking into our research project. I am going to look into this further.

Please refer to her wiki.