Shared Links
I had a kick-off meeting for a project we are doing with the American Library Association yesterday. We are developing a prototype course for ALA called Library Futures. It will be delivered in a Learning 2.0 format using blogs, aggregators, and podcasts as the delivery systems and for user publishing and interface. (You can read about it here.)
I want to call your attention to one very nice thing that we have done that I plan to do for all of our new courses: build a shared set of resources using del.ici.ous. Here's how we are doing it:
Everybody involved needs a del.ici.ous account. (To sign up go here; it's free and once you get it, you'll never stop using it.) Once you have an account, then you should add a del.ici.ous plug-in to your browser. (For Firefox for the PC go here; for Firefox for the Mac, go here; for Safari go here; for IE go here.) When you have installed your plug-in, you should be able to tag any link from your browser to your del.ici.ous account.
Then you need a shared “tag” for your resource list. For the ALA project, we selected ALAL2. So now any time I come across something that I think would be useful, it gets tagged ALAL2 and saved into my delicious account.
Here's the cool part: when you click on your tag (in our example, ALAL2), you will be given the option of clicking on all items tagged by anybody as ALAL2:
By clicking on the “all” link, you get this url: http://del.icio.us/tag/ALAL2 and a list of all items tagged:
And you get an RSS feed of the shared tag: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/ALAL2. When you add this feed to your aggregator, you will be notified any time anybody tags anything with the ALAL2 tag.
This is a great way of building a shared set of resources for a course, project, or team.
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