Resources for a 5 minute ICT input at Curriculum Leaders Meeting, International School of Toulouse, 16th September 2008.
What is it?
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Because it is web-based you can easily share your bookmarks between the different computers that you may use.
Sign up?
Buttons and Toolbars
These are worth installing as they make your life much easier.
Tags
It is very important to tag the sites that you bookmark – the more tags the better.
Example website: BBC News: Huge split in child death rate
Tags: ib igcse population mortality news_feed
You can then combine tags when searching. For example: my tags (geographyalltheway) ib+population+mortality
Tags are very powerful as you can also view RSS feeds from individual tags etc – just ask if you would like to know more about this.
Networks
Having a network allows you to share resources. When you tag a site you are also given the opportunity to tag that site for a member of your network. Members of the IST staff with delicious accounts include:
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