Rip, Mix, Feed - Reloaded:
Social Software and Learning
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog∞
Brian Lamb, Abject Learning∞
∞A del.ico.us introduction to social bookmarking and tagging
The del.icio.us∞ site recommends three common uses of this social bookmarking tool∞...
Keep links to your favorite articles, blog posts and other web resources and access them from any computer on the web.
Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues (some of whom you've never met)
Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite. Monitoring key tags guarantees a steady flow of notable resources.
http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/brian/archives/visualize.jpg∞
Activity:
Go to http://del.icio.us∞
Login with the workshop account - username: nauworkshop (password will be given out in-session)
Identify 5 or 6 webpages, resources, news articles, etc... that have stoked your interest in attending this workshop.
(If you are stuck, you might browse here∞, here∞, or here.)
Be sure to tag each item promiscuously, even perversely.
∞What's all the excitement about those tags? This deceptively simple technique is at the core of the tool's power and its popularity. And they are the foundation of the controversial notion of Folksonomy∞.
Benefits:
"they dramatically lower content categorization costs because there is no complicated, hierarchically organized nomenclature to learn. One simply creates and applies tags on the fly."
"folksonomies are inherently open-ended and can therefore respond quickly to changes and innovations"
"Folksonomies therefore convey information on multiple levels, including information about the people who create them, and they therefore invite human engagement."
Criticisms:
"words [may] have multiple related meanings; for example, a window can be a hole or a sheet of glass"
same things may be described by different words: ie blog, blogs, weblog, web log
inherently idiosyncratic, open to abuse
∞More intertwingley goodness:
Via the del.icio.us javascript∞ functionality, you can republish your del.icio.us items (or your tag cloud∞) on any web site (or course environment). -- We have a little surprise in store on that front... but you'll just have to wait to see what it is.
Naming Frenzy: mobilicio.us∞, digglicious∞, safarilicious∞, ar.icio.us∞, txp.icio.us∞, extisp.icio.us∞, trendalicious∞, taga.licio.us∞, avar.icio.us∞, nutr.itio.us∞, WordPre.cio.us∞, MySQLicious∞, sid.vicio.us∞, gre.gario.us∞, foaflicious∞, spid.ero.us∞, fac.etio.us∞, off.icio.us/∞... and more at Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tools Collection∞
∞Flickr - photo sharing and social software yumminess
Flickr∞ is arguably the world's most successful 'Web 2.0' application. Its founders were recently named to Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people...∞
Why the hype?
Superior interface design- in page editing - Model for the Ajax∞ craze
Personal and system-wide tagging example 1∞ example 2∞
Image Annotation: examples receipe∞ Art History∞
Rich, chocolatey RSS goodness
Groups Squared Circle∞ Literaature Hoedown∞
Unique Uses Digita Scrapbook∞ flicktion∞
Lots of great Flickr hacks (that open API again!)
Tag Related Browsers∞, Mappr∞, Clockr∞, Postcard Browser∞, Vancouver Map∞, Montager∞, Spell With Flickr∞, Colr Pickr∞, delivr∞.... More at Flickr Bits∞ and Great Flickr Tool Invention∞.
∞Activity
One of our favorite Flickr hacks is Flickrlilli∞, which enhances Flickr's search capability by focusing on its Creative Commons∞ licensed images.
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