[Year 12 IT Apps] IT Lecture Notes - delicious

[Roland Gesthuizen]

[image: Flickr tag browser
screengrab]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/35945984@N00/79197159/>[image:
Del.icio.us tag browser
screengrab]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/35945984@N00/79197200/>Here
are two dynamic, visual illustrations of the potential of browsing using
tags that I spoke about at the VITTA blogging seminar several weeks ago
(including geotagging with Google Earth)

Del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us.com/> is a great way to introduce students
to web2.0 feature of tagging and privacy. Using this powerful Java Del.icio.us
Graphical Browser <http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001049.html> users can
now display all the connections and surf the links between the different
tags used.

Because users that publish photographs on Flickr can also add tags to
classify their images, you can also also use the Flickr Related Tag
Browser<http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/>to
surf the different Flickr tags posted. The links between these tags is
determined by their association with other tags and an analysis of their
clustered usage. Fascinating stuff that lets them visualise a model in their
heads of how all this tagging can work to help generate and extract new
information.

Regards Roland

PS: in fact, I dug up this info from some tags that I used on my blog ;-)

On 28/10/2007, murch at tpg.com.au <murch at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> The call for 'misplaced' or 'forgotten' websites and difficulty often
> remembering where they are,
> has prompted this message.
> My students have all set up a delicio.us account where they have
> bookmarked the relevant and
> appropriate sites for their studies. If anyone has not used it yet, can I
> thoroughly recommend it.
> This is a social bookmarking site, where most commonly used, or favourite
> bookmarks are stored
> online and accessible anywhere in the world and on any computer.
> Bookmarking in Favourites
> tends to restrict use to the computer it was set up on. Students can share
> their sites with others
> and link into other networks etc. Found at http://delicio.us I know others
> exist too, eg digitt but
> we started with delicio.us and have had great benefit from this. All my
> favourite websites are
> marked and constantly added to.
> Anne Mirtschin
> Hawkesdale p12 College
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-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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