How do you organize all the resources you find on the web? Normally I would use my web browser’s bookmarking tool to save links and organize them in folders the same way I would MS Office documents and PDFs on my computer. However, social bookmarking with Delicious picks up where web browser bookmarks leave off in three unique ways.
- Because you can add multiple “tags” (or labels) to a web resource you want to save, it’s like cross-listing a single resource into multiple related folders.
- Web resources that share the same tag, can be shared with others with one link. This is great when I want to share web resources on a specific topic with colleagues during a training or with learners in a course.
- The best part of social bookmarking with Delicious is that I can continue to add web resources with the same tag, and the Delicious link is automatically updated.
When I facilitate online teaching and learning workshops, I usually build my Delicious bookmark on copyright and fair use into the learning management system we use. Are there other ways you’ve found to use social bookmarking for training or course development? I invite your comments.
I actually struggled with the idea of using Diigo and Delicious because I wanted a place that was devoted to educational bookmarking (resources vetted by faculty) and utilized by students within courses. My solution…create a new academic hub of social bookmarking devoted to higher education. And thus TheHubEdu was created. http://thehubedu.com/ Just launched in Beta in late September. Students and faculty are finding it to be very useful with some great feature sets already. And it will be so much more than just a social bookmarking site in the future….
Diigo is also a good tool for social bookmarking… plus, it lets you add post-it notes to the sites you bookmark for all to see, or just you to see…
http://www.diigo.com
Sounds like a useful feature! Thanks for sharing.
I agree that Delicious is a useful Web 2.0 tool. I like the fact that I can access my Delicious links from multiple locations.
I was using it until my Firefox upgrade told me it could not accommodate the add in – so then what do I do??
Hi Dudley — Try this link and download the bookmark add-on. According to the site, Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious.