Social Media for Education

Delicious – what is it

• Social Bookmarking website
• Save and store bookmarks online
• Organise them with tags or keywords
• Be social – follow other bookmarkers and send / receive links
• Alas education is an overused word http://delicious.com/tag/education

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

See the ESCalate Delicious account for Education related bookmarks

Delicious – possible uses

• Keeping the same set of bookmarks if using more than one computer
• Organise collection of resources around an agreed tag – escelearn
• One link for related resources http://delicious.com/cfbloke/escelearn
• Social bookmarking – develop a network and share the load
• An alternative search engine
• … and many more from Gabriela Grosseck

Exercise

• Go to Delicious at http://delicious.com/ and register for an account
• Add your favourite education website to your account
• Add the tag escelearn when bookmarking it and search for escelearn

Advanced

Add the ESCalate channel to your network on delicious

http://delicious.com/escalate

Blog

Add your delicious bookmarks or the ESCalate bookmarks to your blog

http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/delicious-widget/