Del.icio.us: social bookmarking

 

Features and Uses

Save your bookmarks on del.icio.us servers

Subscribe to tags of interest

Network with other users

See what's popular/valued

Applications of Information Fluency

Searching tags (your tags, everyone's tags, related tags)

Navigating a Folksonomy and Tag Cloud

• Insights into collective attention (http://tomgruber.org/writing/ontology-of-folksonomy.htm

• Metadata generated by experts, creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy) )

• Weighted visual list of user-generated tags

• Find and expand your personal learning network

Activities to try

Go to Del.icio.us

Establish an account or log in (optional)

Explore tags of interest

Search for and explore 'experts' saved bookmarks, for example David Jakes, David Warlick, Dennis O'Connor

• Search with Keywords (tags) in and out of del.icio.us
• Navigate network lists
• Explore tag clouds for information

Discuss: Does knowing who bookmarked information make it more credible? How could this tool save time doing research? Does a person's network make that individual more trustworthy?

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