Willard Staff: If you are not able to participate in one of the Organizing Your bookmarks Online with delicious workshops this month, or would rather learn on your own timetable, you are in luck. The Fusion: Social Bookmarking with delicious webpage offers an updated handout and short video tutorials (screencasts) to lead you through using delicious. And, there’s more! If you want to earn 3 Salary Advancement Workshop hours while you work, you can enroll in the free, online professional development, Moodle course: Organizing Your bookmarks Online with delicious. This course uses the handout and screencasts on the Fusion webpage to lead you through the steps. Work at your own pace, when it fits in your schedule, from any computer with Internet access. Just in time learning, at your convenience!

Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or suggestions. I’m happy to provide you with additional assistance.

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Last week, one of my summer workshops included organizing web resources using del.ici.ous. The teachers loved it. By the end of the week, delicious was a verb. After I asked them to tag their unit wikis in delicious for me so that I could add them to our list of units on the Technology Integration Academy Webpage, the social networking part made sense to them. I started hearing: “Will you delicious that for me?”… “Have you sent that to my delicious?” I wish I would have had this new Common Craft Show video. I have used several of Mr. LeFever’s videos in my workshops.

Willard Teachers: This 3.5 minute video is blocked at school. It is worth the time and effort to watch elsewhere.

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• Does your browser’s favorites cascade out of the control, just a long unorganized ribbon of links?
• Do you have multiple favorites/bookmarks lists, one on your home computer, one on your classroom computer, and one on your laptop?
• Do you ever find yourself wishing you had access to the favorites on your classroom computer while at home?
• Do you ever find a site that you want to share with a friend, but don’t want to take the time to compose an email with the copied web address?

Try del.icio.us. I know, strange name, awesome tool. Basically, del.icio.us is a free service for storing your favorites/bookmarks on-line; organized by tags, and bundles if you’re so inclined; with built in tools for sharing.

About 6 months ago, I imported my favorites into del.icio.us from ikeepbookmarks. Del.icio.us has proved to be more dependable and faster than ikeepbookmarks (another web-based bookmarking service). The tagging and bundling tools, just like file folders and file drawers, keep my links organized, which is a priority for me (as anyone who knows me will attest to.) I especially like that I can save a website with multiple tags.

Click the Sharpie photo from Beth Kanter’s screen-cast to view her presentation on using del.icio.us. Jeff Utecht also has a great screen-cast on this social bookmarking tool.

The del.icio.us button installed in my browser allows me to save and categorize a web site with a click. Plus the sharing features are great. If I find a site I know Melinda would like, I just tag it with for:mmiller and she gets it in her del.icio.us account under links for you. (Okay, her user-name isn’t really mmiller, but I don’t have her permission to share.) My user-name is jgarton, so if you find any site you wish to share with me, just tag them for:jgarton. Much easier than writing an email and pasting in the web address, clogging up my inbox, and then me adding the emailed link to my del.icio.us account myself. It has also proven to be a great resource for locating web sites. I can easily search all the other user’s accounts by keyword, or even network with other users.

Download:Using del.icio.us – Powered by TeacherTube.com

You might start noticing a del.icio.us chicklet on some websites, along with Digg it!, RSS, and a handful of others. But that’s another post.

To learn more, register for my summer workshop on Finding, Evaluating, and Organizing Web Resources on Monday, July 3oth. In addition to setting up a del.icio.us account, you will learn to decrease your search time and increase your find time, and explore the new Google Co-op tool for creating your own search engine. Plus you will practice using the 5Cs to evaluate on-line resources. You can find a comprehensive handout on del.icio.us and other related resources on my Social Bookmarking web page.

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