Jan 12, 2016
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An Introduction to Social Bookmarking
http://commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Social Bookmarking
Bookmarks are not stored on your computer
Bookmarks are stored on the internet– Accessible anywhere you have internet
access (school, home, internet café at your favourite holiday destination)
– If your computer dies, grows legs or is left out in the rain, you haven’t lost all those great sites
Social Bookmarking
As the bookmarks are now stored on the internet, they can now be shared with others (the social aspect)– Colleagues– Friends– Relatives,and– People you don’t know
Just give them your del.icio.us address You can benefit also by looking at other
people’s del.icio.us address
Organising the Bookmarks
The bookmarks are organised using “tags”
Tags are keywords you create to categorise a website
You can use as many tags for a website as you like - just don’t have spaces in them
You find your websites by searching through your “tag cloud”
A Tag Cloud
Suitable Tags
What would be some good tags to use??– KLA’s / Strands– Stage Level / Year Level– Thematic words– Others??
Should we now quickly brainstorm some tags we will use?
OHPS Tag System
How to…bookmark a site
Easiest way is to install and use the buttons. Do it now…
How to…bookmark a site
Highlight some sort of descriptive text from the website and copy it.
You can also just type your own descriptive text
Click on the “TAG” button
How to…bookmark a site
Fill in the blanks
Finding a bookmark
Click on the “Your Favourites” button
Click on an appropriate tag from your “tag cloud” to find what you are after
A Tag Cloud
Finding other bookmarks
Go to del.icio.us/tag/
Type a tag word in the grey-outlined box
Enjoy looking through the results
Getting a network
When you come across people who have similar interests to you, you can add them to your network.
Can also view that person’s network.
Let’s Start
Get your sheet of paper which has the websites you like written on it (you do have it don’t you???)
Get your new classroom poster and hang it up near your SmartBoard today.
3-6 will go with Annie - use the OHPS Tag System we brainstormed earlier to start adding sites.
K-2 will come with me to do the same. Explore these bookmarked sites at your
own leisure.
I can’t wait, let me at it…
http://del.icio.us/ohps
Username: ohpsPassword: ********