What is it?

Social Bookmarking is the ability for users with common interests to discover and share bookmarks via the internet. A user is able to store and retrieve bookmarks from any web connected computer.
Delicious is a website that facilitates the creation of online bookmarks

How can I use it?

• An academic can bookmark a useful website and with no additional effort it can become available for his/her students in any number of linked Blackboard subjects.
• Students can collectively bookmark online resources for each other to discover
• Online resources can be categorised and be displayed in Blackboard as a map of keywords. These keywords are links to the resources.

Examples

Nanette Carter in the Faculty of Design uses a Delicious Tag cloud in her Blackboard subject so students can easily find new resources based on keywords/tags which Nanette has bookmarked.

I’m interested, what do I need to do next ?

1. Register a username at http://del.icio.us
2. Install a browser extension for Internet Explorer or Firefox
3. Create your bookmark collection and include keyword tags
4. Embed your linkroll or tagcloud links into Blackboard

See also

• More help information at the Delicious website
• What is Delicious
• What is Social Bookmarking
• A guide to using Delicious (PDF) by David Muir
• Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

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