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Friday, April 29, 2005

Tagging Bookmarks with del.icio.us for Educators

Have you ever used del.icio.us?

It is a great tool to share bookmarks with others. When you add a bookmark, you add tags that are related to the link.

How can educators and students use this?

There are many possibilities, and I am interested in exploring this more.Educators can tag and share their favorite educational websites and websites used to plan lessons. Educators can also organize their bookmarks better for courses or subjects they teach by using tags. Students can tag bookmarks they use for assignments. Students working on group projects can share bookmarks with each other.

Finding bookmarks tagged by others

By adding tags to your bookmarks, it helps others find bookmarks you use. For example, you are looking for bookmarks related to math that are tagged with math.

How do you find these bookmarks?

http://del.icio.us/tag/tagname goes here

Example: http://del.icio.us/tag/math

What if you wanted to find a bookmark that uses both a math tag and education tag?

http://del.icio.us/tag/math+education

http://del.icio.us/tag/tagname goes here + tagname goes here

Education related tags

Listed below are education related tags that might have resources to help you. I am sure there are more tags, but this is a start.

Click the link and start exploring!!

http://del.icio.us/tag/ed

http://del.icio.us/tag/edu

http://del.icio.us/tag/education

http://del.icio.us/tag/teach

http://del.icio.us/tag/teaching

http://del.icio.us/tag/teacher

http://del.icio.us/tag/teachers

http://del.icio.us/tag/classroom

http://del.icio.us/tag/k12

http://del.icio.us/tag/elementary

http://del.icio.us/tag/highered

http://del.icio.us/tag/homework

http://del.icio.us/tag/lesson+plans

http://del.icio.us/tag/lessonplans

http://del.icio.us/tag/technology+education

http://del.icio.us/tag/elearning

http://del.icio.us/tag/technologyintegration

http://del.icio.us/tag/onlinelearning

http://del.icio.us/tag/efl

http://del.icio.us/tag/esl

http://del.icio.us/tag/education+history (history education)

http://del.icio.us/tag/social+studies

http://del.icio.us/tag/socialstudies

http://del.icio.us/tag/math

http://del.icio.us/tag/mathematics

http://del.icio.us/tag/algebra

http://del.icio.us/tag/geometry

http://del.icio.us/tag/science

http://del.icio.us/tag/astronomy

http://del.icio.us/tag/biology

http://del.icio.us/tag/chemistry

http://del.icio.us/tag/physics

http://del.icio.us/tag/specialed

http://del.icio.us/tag/special+education

http://del.icio.us/tag/art+education(art education)

http://del.icio.us/tag/music+education(music education)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this post!

Jeff said...

Emily,

Jeff here from segatech.blogspot.com. I just wanted you to know I checked out your post about del.icio.us and liked your style. I posted a link to your blog. I'm going to be a regular visitor to your site now. Keep up the terrific work.

Sue said...

Thanks for the post. I have become enchanted by del.icio.us and can see a myriad of uses for educators and students.

Thanks for the post; you have demystified social bookmarking.

Thanks again,

Sue

Alicia said...

This is a fabulous post.

I am a Masters of Library Science student, doing my final project for my MLS degree on Del.icio.us for Teachers. My project will be to find, evaluate, and then tag a collection of websites for some Junior High English teachers.

Right now, I am collecting information on teachers currently using del.icio.us. Why they are using it, how they are using it, what benefits they get from del.icio.us.

You have said some great things there in this post. I hope I can mention them in my report.
If you have anything else that might be useful project, please comment here or email me! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

There is also an RSS or XML feed.
Format is http://del.icio.us/rss/yourtaghere

Pop that into your reader and you will get updates as new sites are tagged.

Anonymous said...

Emily,
This valuable information will help me get much better at tags. And I delighted that I found your blog.

I have been working to learn how to use tags more efficiently because I am trying to track writing in math class, using photos in math class and other specific things.

Planetoid said...

I organized the list as the following: http://planetoid.info/blog/archives/000123.html

Stuart Deane said...

My delicious account built for educators k-12 can be found here.

http://del.icio.us/learnit

cheers

stuart
www.learn-it.com.au