I have been working on these ideas through the wiki around social bookmarking.
http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Social_bookmarking_tools
Here is what I have so far:
1. Create a set of resources that can be accessed on any computer connected to the Internet
2. Conduct research and share that research with your peers
3. Track author and book updates
4. Groups of students doing a classroom project sharing their
bookmarks, a teacher subscribed to their rss feed to see the direction
of their research. (FURL – teacher can review and comment on resources
that are bookmarked)
5. Resource teacher does a PD event with a group of teachers
creates a shared del.icio.us account where teachers can post research
and information bookmarks that they gather throughout the year. All
members continuously benefit from this shared resource.
6. Rate and review bookmarks to help other students to decide on usefulness of resources
7. Setup a group tag in order to share educational resources (IE. Dekita Exchange and on this wiki in Geocaching for Educators)
8. Unintended learning through the discovery of resources and information shared by others through their bookmarks
9. Share links to current news items that relate to classroom discussions.
10. Examine the popularity of a web site that a student had
listed and examine those who have tagged that resource in order to find
new resources. (and perhaps unintended learning opportunities)
11. Share one del.icio.us account between a number of different
subject specific educators or a school in order to share resources with
each other. (see Willowdale Elementary School and District6 )
12. Share one del.icio.us account between a large number of
educators across a school district that teach in diverse settings in
order to create a broad and deep set of resources. (see Traverse City Area Public Schools for district wide social bookmarking)
Any other ideas to add to the list?
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for themselves and in their classes. Check out the links below to get started. Del.icio.us (Social bookmarking site that is unblocked in Seattle Public Schools. You need to register to use. (free)) More information on social bookmarking and tags 12 uses for social bookmarking in the classroom Note: Social bookmarking does have it’s downsides. Users can easily post inappropriate sites. If you are a Seattle School’s employee and find an inappropriate site that is not blocked by our filter please email the link to
for themselves and in their classes. Check out the links below to get started. Del.icio.us (Social bookmarking site that is unblocked in Seattle Public Schools. You need to register to use. (free)) More information on social bookmarking and tags 12 uses for social bookmarking in the classroom Note: Social bookmarking does have it’s downsides. Users can easily post inappropriate sites. If you are a Seattle School’s employee and find an inappropriate site that is not blocked by our filter please email the link to
ask learners to create a blog where important reflections – coming out of social bookmarking – can be expressed and explored (and in the process, if blogs are public, enable learners to bookmark the writing of classmates). See also 12 ideas around social bookmarking in education Tagging While often used in conjunction with social bookmarking, tags are a means for individuals to organize and describe resources in personally meaningful language and classification schemes. Tags
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Discussing reasons for using social bookmarks – portability / accessibility – sharing potential social bookmarking – interactive – about sharing information – it is a network Common Craft video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English12 Ideas Around Social Bookmarking in Education- good set of suggested activities with tags, there are “no rules†except “no spaces†make sure you back up your del.icio.us links!!!! (I HAVE NOT DONE THIS TO DATE BUT AM DOING THIS NOW!!!!)
Awesome resource!
Small note- please change URL for Feed2JS to http://feed2js.org/ — the old Maricopa server is 404.
Also, since you are using MediaWiki, there is an extension that allows you to embed RSS content directly there- see:
http://cogdogblog.com/2006/07/14/rendering-rss-inside-media-wiki/
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GISWiki/RSS
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the update – I switched the link.
I was already using that extention – just below where feed2js was.
The feed was from: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/socialbookmarking I'm also using it throughout the wiki – on the wiki home – http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page I have Latest Posts referring to the wiki on Technorati etc.
Do you know of a wysiwyg editor extension that works for MediaWiki? The extensions with FCKeditor don't seem to work.
* have students bookmark on a subject before a lesson (as a reading exercise), then review those sites after the ‘talk and chalk’ part of the lesson
* have students bookmark sites during a lecture, then review during question time