101. Delicious. Social Bookmarking

Delicious: Social bookmarking.  www.delicious.com

Have you ever book marked something only to find later when you want that site that it is on another computer/ laptop/ at school / at home?

Social bookmarking allows you to keep all your www bookmarks on line, so that you don’t have to be at the same computer to save interesting sites. Your book marks are held “out there in the ether” and you have the flexibility to access them any where, any time.

Delicious was the first official site, and over the years has undergone a transformation including a name change, and the ability to make sites public or private.

There are other social bookmarking sites available. Another site I have used with students is Portaportal as this social book marking site does not allow the linking from your sites to others. I’ll explain that further on in this post

Social bookmarking also gives you collaborative capabilities, eg Good sites for explorers that your class have found as a group while searching, can be saved directly to 5G class site. Good maths sites, sites for EYFS resources etc etc. Your bookmarks can be tagged and these become tag bundles, so all the bookmarks tagged co-operative learning appear in that tag or folder.

Delicious has 5 other interesting features apart from tagging

1. You can down load an app and have your bookmarks on your phone. Really useful for those conversations when you are away from your computer and someone talks about a useful site.
2. You can make your bookmarks either public or private, which leads to point 3. there is an edit pencil which allows you to change if later on you change your mind
3. If your book marks are public then other people can piggy back into your bookmarks. That’s the nature of social media. A useful upside of this is that if you bookmark an interesting article for example on collaborative learning, you can see who else has bookmarked that item, and click through into their bookmarks. They may have other collaborative sites they have bookmarked which you can explore, or haven’t found. NB If you don’t want anyone coming through to your bookmarks then click the  private option.
4. There is a followers and a follow tab which works the same way as Twitter. You may find somebody who saves interesting items on collaborative learning. By following that person you are piggy backing into their research, searches and general interest.
5. Under the Add link tab are  2 useful tools allowing you to
   place 2 icons on your tool bar. One is a click icon add to my delicious site. Therefore any new website you want to save is a mere click of the button away. I also have the icon that takes me directly to my delicious account on all the computers I use.