Del.icio.us Research - n07s588

Lucie deLaBruere Lucie was articulate in sharing the history of social bookmarking. Her session notes are hosted http://necc2007.pbwiki.com/

My gleanings are listed below: While Del.icio.us was the tool of choice discussed, the merits of the following two were also included.
FURL.Net
Onlywire.com

- allows to sent to multiple tools I am a fairly confident Del.icio.us user already but was reminded of several features and learned a couple more.
1. You can create a single account and have your whole class use that one to tag and create a classroom resource.
2. By checking who else has tagged the same sites as you, you can also see if they tagged other sites that you might find valuable.
3. Using the notes section could be used to assess students understanding of the websites they are tagging. If a site is already tagged, students need to find other sites that meet the original criteria.

Other understandings
1. Gary Toews in Abbotsford created a neat way to have classes working together and be able to assess individual student contributions as well. http://sd34.homeip.net/STaRT-Training/topic/infolit/settingupdelicious/index.html
2. While Del.icio.us may not be ëauthorizedí resource such as an encyclopedia, it has only links that someone sees as valuable you can see who submitted you can see how many also tagged the site you can view other sites tagged by other users.
3. Will Richardson shared in another session a way to view how your Del.icio.us network is connected. http://www.twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/
4. Teachers are starting to use Del.icio.us to search for valuable sites before going to Google as the sites have all been ëapprovedí by at least one person already.

How does Del.icio.us relate to IML? Del.icio.us can easily fit all 6 aspects of IML. Using this Web2.0 tool involves understanding the social creation of knowledge, building inquiry skills, communicating, critical thinking and even creativity in how the bookmarks are socially shared.