del.icio.us & social bookmarking for your class & course activities
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Slides for a class session for incoming students about using Del.icio.us collaboratively for the classes.TRANSCRIPT
Del.icio.us & Social Bookmarking for Your Class
& Course Activities
Patricia F. Anderson <[email protected]>
UM Health Sciences Libraries Prematriculation, UMMS
July 18, 2007
© 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
Del.icio.us
Why Is Del.icio.us Useful?
• Get to your bookmarks from home, office, class, library, clinics …
• Discover more cool links like those you already have
• Sharing resources with peers, friends, teachers & others
• Collect search strategies & information for assignments, bibliographies, projects
• Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.
Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists
• Connotea
• CiteULike
Getting Started
• Create your account
• Upload your bookmarks
• Export bookmarks (“hotsync”)
• Save links
• Tag
• Annotate
• Settings
Create Your Account
Upload Bookmarks
• Easy: Select file, accept default options
• Public or Private - your choice
Export Bookmarks
• Like hotsyncing your browser
Searching in Del.icio.us
• Three options
Searching in Del.icio.us
• Example:
Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us
• Tags are freeform and self-selected• Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation
for the same concept– Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu =
Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = …– Avian influenza– Bird flu = birdflu– Bird influenza– Pandemic influenza– Pandemic flu– H5N1 / h5n1– MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza
• Watch for popular terms
Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us
Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us
Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us
Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us
• http://del.icio.us/tag/
• Add the term you want at the end of the URL above.
How to Save a Link
• With the post button
• With the browser buttons
• Required elements: title / URL
• Optional standard elements: tags / annotations
• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox
How to Save a Link
• With the post button (eg. PDFs)– 1. Click post
– 2. Paste URL for selected item.
How to Save a Link
• With the post button (eg. PDFs)
• TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.
How to Save a Link
• With the browser buttons
How to Save a Link
• With the browser buttons– TIP: Click on tags you’ve already used to
avoid typing.
How to Save a Link
• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox
Personalized Settings
• Privacy options
• Networking
Personalized Settings: Privacy
• Private links (checkbox)
• Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)
Who Saved What?
Personalized Settings: Networks
Using Networks for Discovery
Linking to Complex Concepts
• Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts
Saving Search Strategies
• PubMed & Google & more …
How to Tag - Basics
• Tagging rules– Separate tags with a space– Join words with punctuation (lower-case
preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words)
Tagging Example
• For who? Or should I say 4 who?
• From who? Or should I say via who?
How to Annotate
• Annotations: Personal vs. Communal
• Citations
• Quotations
• Date Viewed
• Size limits on what can be included
Tag & Annotate Examples
• 4, 2, via:, in:, from: … NOT for:
Tagging Tips
• Include both broad and narrow terms
• Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific.
• Consider using two tags in combination to describe one idea– images.anatomy OR anatomy.images OR …– images anatomy
Tagging Tips
• Use punctuation for spaces (lower case)
• Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term.
• Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.
Tagging Tips
• Tagging shortcuts: examples– Items for a particular audience:
• 4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc
– Items from frequently read journals or authors:
• in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd
– Items for people in your delicious network:• for:dentlib, for:tmjchat
Editing Saved Links
• When you are logged in, you can see an EDIT button by all your links.
Saving Items Tagged for You
Saving Items Tagged for You
Tag for Your Course
• To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with this: – premat2007
Tag for Your Course
• To send to the teacher for the class account, tag with this: – for:premat2007
Tag for Your Peers
• To tag items for your class group, tag with this:– Umms2011
Questions?
– Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]