Weekly Activities

Week Five

Feb. 11 – Feb. 17

Social bookmarking for networked learning experience in ESP

Co-Moderators: Christine Parkhurst and Buthaina Al Othman

• Introduction to del.icio.us and why every ESP instructor needs to use it: review of tags, Technorati tags vs Delicious tags ( Week 2)

Activity 1

• Task 1: Del.icio.us's tutorial video - Watch the video, Social Bookmarking in Plain English, by Common Craft.
• Task 2: Create your del.icio.us account and post your favorite tags, including this session's tag "web2foresp08": what have you found? organize by esp area
• Task 3: Subscribe to http://del.icio.us/network/web2foresp08 and start posting links to web2foresp08 delicious network - use this format [for:web2foresp08] in the tagging section, then click Save

Activity 2

• Task 4: Start bookmarking, tagging, networking, and sharing: network and share with others in your area of esp - examples of some popular ESP tags: health, science, engineering, tourism, business, businessenglish
• Task 5: Practice teaching activity: Using recommended or popular del.icio.us shared tags for your ESP students/using student accounts''

Bonus Question & Activity

• What's the difference between tags found in Technorati and those found in Delicious? Hint: some activities and Vance Stevens' presentation in week 2 (see Recordings page)

• Create tag bundles to organize and classify saved links - Then, add the badge of  tags list / cloud on your blog or wiki - Hint: these activities can be completetd on your delicious Settings page