This week's installment focused on social bookmarking web sites. These are web sites which enable people to store their bookmarks online, categorise them using tags, and share them with others.
We showed participants how to set up an account with one of these sites, called del.icio.us, and took them through the process of creating bookmarks, tagging them, and creating networks in which to share them. See the Social Bookmarking guide for all relevant instructions.
Preparation: In preparation for this session, we asked participants to have a look at the following short video introduction to social bookmarking, which is available on YouTube.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
After you've watched the video, we asked everyone to take five minutes to post a comment on their own blog about what you've seen, and to respond to the following questions: Does social bookmarking look like a helpful tool? How would you describe social bookmarking to someone who didn't know what it was? Can you imagine how it might be used in professional/research/teaching context? (Don't forget to include a link back to the video.)
This workshop was first run on October 9, 2007