Agenda

• Short introduction

• Why use del.icio.us?

• Some advantages and • Some advantages and

disadvantages

• How can del.icio.us

suport

teaching/learning?

• Instead of conclusions …

http://del.icio.us

• The ‘youtube’ of links• The ‘youtube’ of links

• Free Internet Social

Bookmaring service

• 2001/3 – Joshua Schachter

• 2005 – Yahoo!

del.icio.us Traffic

2 million users

59%

2 million users

Creating one’s own collection:

http://del.icio.us/username

Managing marked information

Search:

• one’s own collection

• the general links library

• the Web

Finding information:

Architecture of

Collective

intelligence

Architecture of

participation

“Your

network”

Folk

+

taxonomytaxonomy

Javier Canadas, 2006, http://www.terremoto.net/tipologias-y-estlos-en-el-etiquetado-social

• Independence from a platform

• Easy to use

• Ubiquity

• Maleability

• Serendipity

• Collective intelligence

• Flexibility

• Creating dynamics learning communities

• Lots of tools (by API)

• An online connection

• Vocabulary

• Inconsistency of terms

• Dichotomy sg-pl.

• Language

Lack of precision• Lack of precision

• Social network?

• Information load

• Etc.

• Support for lectures

• Bulding learning

communities

• Research

• Projects

• Educational materials

• Feedback• Feedback

• Content management

abilities

• Professional

development

• Colloquial language

• Linkroll, tagroll etc.

• Creating relation network

• Creating

Del.icio.us explorer / visualizations / diagrams etc.

The overlapping networks of Britt

Watwood, Eduardo Peirano and myself

• Creating conceptual map

• Tag clouds

• Eye-tracking accounts

• Geo-tagging etc.

Thanks for your attention!

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