Comments on: A Delicious Contemplation

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:16:40 +0000

I use delicious regularly in my teaching to share resources with my students, but I don’t use the “share” function. I find it cumbersome and difficult to learn (for my students). Instead, I have my students use a shared tag for specific assignments. You can check out the mm334 (our course number) to see how many my students have contributed.

However, this semester I am using a computer lab in which all of my students have access to a computer. I can assign multiple websites for them to work on simply by tagging it for that assignment. They go to my delicious website, but then I can assign them specific websites. This makes it much faster for me to assign different groups different tasks.

Finally, my students can go back and revisit video clips or websites I have used in class. All of my students have a delicious account, and it is up to them to add to delicious what they want from my own account. I have also had students create annotated bibliographies via delicious, then email the location (mm334bibliography).

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:12:45 +0000

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By: Frances Bell

Frances Bell — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:46:44 +0000

The post and comments really demonstrate the different ways in which people use tech/networks. I explored my thinking in this diagram http://www.flickr.com/photos/francesbell/4022783424/in/set-72157594211705821/ for use in a class but I am still pondering, and developing my ideas. My response to Andy is that I think folksonomy could work where a community share a language, and on delicious if the community has meaningful engagement on delicious. My use of delicious is mainly to store things I find elsewhere (often via my Twitter network). So delicious could be used very purposefully in a group. With my students, I use delicious rather as Virginia describes but I also encouraged them to experiment with using it as an alternative search engine.

By: Andy Coverdale

Andy Coverdale — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:15 +0000

Students from a very young age are increasingly engaged in using social media to share ideas and content, yet the transference of these practices to formal educational contexts is negated by a prevalent assessment-driven student learning culture and competitive environment. Modes of sharing can be formalised into group-working scenarios and collaborative exercises, but that is very different from cultivating a sharing ecology.

By: virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:11:05 +0000

One thing I find is that there is a question as to actually “owns” the knowledge. I have been very frustrated because my students tend to look at my bookmarks as MY resources that they should use, rather than contributing to others and my knowledge. I have been working on getting them to share knowledge.

However, the educational system in the US does not teach students to share resources as that is viewed as cheating. So I need to establish new habits and overcome tendencies to hoard information. Sharing information might give one student an advantage over another, so they don’t want to do it.

So I guess the question is: do students or workers for that matter, really want to share information? If so, why?

By: Andy Coverdale

Andy Coverdale — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:49 +0000

Thanks for your comments. Criistina and Virginia have clearly demonstrated that a range of social and collaborative practices are possible with bookmarking tools. What are the implications of this in terms of context? Sites such as Delicious retain content as delineated by the single web page, whereas the web annotation tools Cristina mentions introduce the potential to shift content ‘boundaries’ from that determined by the original source (and its author) to that of the recipient (the one doing the annotation) and his/her space.

By: virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:00:57 +0000

By: Cristina Costa

Cristina Costa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:51:53 +0000

Interesting. I have been thinking about it myself.
I bookmark many resources daily. I try to tag it such way that I can easily find it again, but most often I go back and google it if I need it.

I have moved from delicious to diigo now, and what I like is the fact that I belong to groups of interest and that it send me a digest email with the bookmarks that were shared that day. I scanned through it first thing in the morning and sometimes I find interesting stuff, I hadn’t come cross before.

I alos like the fact that we now can annotate sites (and highlight paragraphs) and share it with others, or just keep it to yourself. I use this feature fairly often…more on my own than in group, but it would be nice to explore such possibilities with others…just like Mike Wesch and his students did http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=199

But you are write, I don’t think most of us is using social bookmarking to its full potential…

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:30:34 +0000

So its not really ‘social’ bookmarking after all, but an online bookmarking tool that others can see if they wish but doesn’t provide them with any more material than a Google search does?