Del.icio.us: social bookmarking
Features and Uses
Save your bookmarks on del.icio.us servers
Subscribe to tags of interest
Network with other users
See what's popular/valued
Applications of Information Fluency
Searching tags (your tags, everyone's tags, related tags)
Navigating a Folksonomy and Tag Cloud
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Insights into collective attention (http://tomgruber.org/writing/ontology-of-folksonomy.htm
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Metadata generated by experts, creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy) )
- Weighted visual list of user-generated tags
- Find and expand your personal learning network
Activities to try
Establish an account or log in (optional)
Explore tags of interest
Search for and explore 'experts' saved bookmarks, for example David Jakes, David Warlick, Dennis O'Connor (you have to figure out their usernames)
- Search with Keywords (tags) in and out of del.icio.us
- Navigate network lists
- Explore tag clouds for information
Discuss: Does knowing who bookmarked information make it more credible? How could this tool save time doing research? Does a person's network make that individual more trustworthy?