Multimedia Monday: Social Bookmarking

Yesterday saw the first Multimedia Monday workshop for this term; the first in a four-part series on Social bookmarking the del.icio.us way.

At yesterday’s session, we explored why you would want to go to the trouble of setting up your bookmarks in a del.icio.us account rather than use the existing “Favourites” or “Bookmarks” on your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari).

In fact, if you’re someone who uses more than one web browser program, or more than one computer (i.e. every teacher in the school), or likes to share their new “fave” websites with others, then del.icio.us is actually less trouble (not more) than maintaining your existing bookmarks. It’s proven to be an excellent tool for collecting grade resources this year.

So, why use del.icio.us? Well, if you missed the session yesterday, then here is a short video to give you the info.

Also, here are the slides from a presentation made by Judy O’Connell at the 2007 Catholic Education Commission Learning With Web 2.0 Forum.

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Don’t forget that the next session, which will help you to get signed up with del.icio.us, is being brought forward to next Monday (29 October). Bring your laptop with you to 4/5K.