Even though I had already used Delicious prior to the start of the class, this is the first time I really looked at
some of the options available besides just "bookmarking. I enjoyed looking at the links by others in this class,
both via Delicious and Twitter. I looked at my tag cloud and did try a tag bundle, but my collection isn't really huge yet, so it didn't look much different than the random booksmarks I have already, since most of them have to do with tech integration. I tended to annotate those links I didn't think were self-explanatory in the title, or if I wanted to draw special attention to them in some way because I could see a good purpose for their use. Most of my bookmarks are annotated, because I like to use them myself to see if something will be of interest to me.
I did try to do a tag subscription so I could find users who had similar interests, but the disadvantage I found was that I could only have one tag per subscription. For example, I tried web2.0 and elementary and education, but the subscription only search for web2.0. I also wish you could search by a person's name, rather than by user name--if you don't know what the user name is, there isn't a way to find it, at least that I could see.
The use of Delicious would make sense in a class where you wanted students to share resources amongst themselves,
or, similar to what you did in this class, use a unique tag to group all the bookmarks together. A teacher could share bookmarks with students this way also.
You might want to try a RSS feed instead of a subscription. It allows you to following combinations of tags. That's what we did for class.
ReplyDeleteDid you try to find any others with similar interests? This is another way of locating useful resources on a topic.
Do you think children need any instruction on being good taggers? What might they need to know?