WEEK 3 - BOOKMARKING
Keeping up with the spirit of this course, this week we've been offered a chance to explore, work upon and share social bookmarking networks such as Delicious, Diigo, Digg, etc. They are extremely handy web 2.0 tools when it comes to having your favourites sites organized and tagged.
We are now linked and as instructors, we can now benefit from and take adavntage of the folksonomy created by collegues, avoiding wasting time browsing looking for quality CALL material to be used in the EFL classroom.
We are now linked and as instructors, we can now benefit from and take adavntage of the folksonomy created by collegues, avoiding wasting time browsing looking for quality CALL material to be used in the EFL classroom.
Mainly, we devoted time to work on Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.[2][3] The site was sold to AVOS Systems on April 27, 2011[4] and relaunched in a "back to beta" state on September 27 that year.[5]
This is how it works:
I would like to share another bookmarking site which I used to have in the past. That one is Symbaloo which is an alternative more eyecatching tool to bookmark your favourites. This is a more visual tool though it is not as social as Delicious or similar sites, though you can share your profile through Facefook or Twitter or you can also embed the patchwork or webmix, as it is called, in any other platform you're using.
Let's keep sharing and learning!
Let's keep sharing and learning!
Hello Pablo!
ReplyDeleteI just checked out Symbaloo! Lot's of colours! :-D Thanks for sharing!
Hellen
Hey Hellena!
DeleteGlad you liked it. Let's keep on sharing!
Dear Pablo:
ReplyDeleteI usually use Safari Bookmarks with iCloud syncing, but it does not have the social factors as Delicious. I like how Delicious allows us to share bookmarks publicly with other people, but the problem is some bookmarks are not to be seen by others. You know, private and personal issues. Do you agree?
Best,
Chetra
I totally agree with you, some things should remain personal. I should check Delicioius configurations to see is links can be made invisible to others, if I find it, I'll let you know.
DeleteBest,
Pablo-