4.+Finding+A+Match

toc =Finding A Match= Redefine your little black book - information should flow to you.

Compatability

Locate Information - Finding that special someone

Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is "a method for Internet users to store, organize, serach, and manage pages on the Internet with the help of metadata" (Wikipedia). Social bookmarking allows you to record, organize and access the many sites that you want to refer to later or pass on to teachers who would find them useful.

**Delicious**
Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that allows the user to bookmark Web sites and return to them wherever they are in the world. The link can be placed on your Web page, so when students or teachers click on the link, they are taken to your collection of sites. Whenever another site is added, it is automatically included in my list and available to the user. Delicious facilitates finding, collecting, sharing, and distributing web sites to students, teachers, administrators, and other teacher-librarians. Its amazing features and intuitive, easy to use interface makes it an essential tool in any teacher-librarian’s toolkit.

Deepen your sharing by creating a network of individuals who have the same interests. View their bookmarks and, if applicable, add them to your collection. To locate people to network with, either:
 * Search and find individuals and then add them to your network
 * Or when a site is saved is saved, click on the number at the right had side of the bookmark to see who else has bookmarked it. View their bookmarks and if determine if you wish to add them to your network. When the network button is clicked, you aretaken to a page that lists all the sites your network has bookmarked.

Share bookmarks with others who are a part of my network by adding for: username in the tag field. The link is sent to the user’s inbox in Delicious, thereby eliminating the need to email links that others might find useful.

Use Delicious subscription feature to subscribe to specific tags. After you add a tag to your subscriptions, Delicious watches for everyone's bookmarks saved with that tag and delivers them to your subscriptions page.” For example, I subscribed to the tag hzo7 when I was following Vikki Davis and Julie Lindsay’s Horizon Project in 2007. Any time the tag hz07 was used it appeared on my subscription page.

**Tagging**
Tagging allows the user to give as many keywords I want to describe an item. This allows the user to quickly find the bookmarked sites by being able to search according to the tags I have assigned items. [|Tagging Video (New Media Literacies)]

[|Google Labeler] is a feature of Google Search that allows you to label images and help improve the quality of Google's image search results. Google Image Labeler is an activity that can help us think about tagging, and playing it also helps Google improve its image searches. You can play as a guest if you don't have a Google account. Here's how it works: Source - New Media Literacies
 * you'll get automatically paired with a partner who is online
 * at the same time, you and your partner will both see an image and type in as many labels you can think of to describe it
 * some words will be listed as "off limits", try to avoid them
 * whenever you and your partner think of the same label and type it in, you'll both get points for the match

**Notes**
Delicious has the ability to add notes. Use this field to describe the item in greater detail, to note who might use the site, or to note where and what you learned about the site.

**RSS**
Viewing the bookmarked sites can become even more simplified when one begins to use the RSS capabilities of Delicious. Subscribe to the RSS feed and everyday in a reader, you can see how many bookmarks my network has added and pursue them at your leisure. Even better, you can subscribe to a tag used by specific user and have it arrive in your reader. For example, I want to receive notice of the links that Kathy Cassidy tags ‘primary’, so I use the RSS button to subscribe to http://delicious.com/kathycassidy/primary. Each time she tags a site ‘primary’ I will see it in my RSS reader, Bloglines.

Source Information
Be One of A Kind - Cheating Is Easy…Creating Is Understanding. Instead of Policing – Prevent by eliminating or reducing the opportunities to cheat. Assignment Design - Deep inquiry; choice of topics; demand for citation. Discuss what constitutes plagiarism or academic integrity.

Digital Citizenship - ] Facebook, MySpace, cell phones, YouTube, Flickr and cell phones with multi-media capabilities… our students’ online presence is growing along with their ability to connect with people from all over the world. Our first response is often one of fear and a desire to protect our children from any dangers they might encounter in this new online world that we don’t understand. Blocking, banning and filtering may seem to be the best options but are they really?

Students are already using these tools in their daily life but I question, no, I know that they are not always using them ethically, responsibly or with full knowledge of what information is being extracted about them. However, when we block, ban and filter we isolate them from the real world and abdicate responsibility for teaching them how to be knowledgeable and safe online.

> I[|Created This, Copyright Law (New Media Literacies)] > [|Dump Your Pen Friend (New Media Literacies)] > Flickr, Wikis > - Microsoft Word > - Online Generators > - BibMe > - Citation Machine
 * Creative Commons -
 * Attribution -
 * Citing Sources

Note-Taking
Google Docs