Week 7 questions

• Looking at others' links: Go back and look at the websites collected by the class under the tags. Are there any there that you want to save to your own list?

The website I want to save to my own list would be the Online Colleges website in Sommer's delicious bookmark.

• Choosing tags: How has your own list of tags grown? Were you consistent in using tags? Did you use many tags for each link? Did you use synonyms or stay consistent in your use of terms? Did you change your mind about tags you wanted to use? Did the tags used by others impact your choices? Did you find yourself using the same tags across different tools (e.g., del.icio.us, your blog, wiki pages)? How would you approach teaching tagging to students?

My tags have grown by a few each week.  I have been consistent in using tags, but probably needed more becuase I had redundency in my tags.  I didn't change my mind about tags I wanted to use and I stayed consistent.  The tags used by others did impact my choices because they alerted me to new tags that I could you.  I did find myself using the same tags across different tools.  I would approach teaching tagging to students by following their peer's tags, using a larger variety of tags and always being open to new tags they see others using.

• Tag clouds: Check out your Tag log or cloud (under Tags - My Tags). Which tags have you used the most often, other than those assigned for the class?

The tag I used most often was education and college.

• Annotations: Did you add annotations to each link? Why or why not? What would be an advantage of doing this?

I did not add annotations to each link, however, I now see that it would have been useful so I could better track my tags/searches.

Connecting with others:

• How could you use del.icio.us to connect with others interested in the same topic? Try this for one of the tags you used for a topic in this class. Who did you find used many of the same tags and bookmarked things of interest?

I found other students by using the same tag that appeared to be following the same subject.  This helps in the research process especially when working on large projects like a thesis.

• How might you use the Network feature of del.icio.us? Try this with one other person (not someone in the class, but someone who appears to have a similar interest).

I could use the network feature by connecting with others interested in the same topics by getting various points of view from other professionals all over the world.

• How could you use del.icio.us or a similar product (Diigo, BuddyMarks (filtered), Scuttle (on own server), FURL) among a group of people like students in a class or a group of friends?

These tools could be used to do research gathering for classroom projects and demonstrations.  They could also be used to see who is using research tools (and what tools they are using) for papers,etc.