Pin It, Tag It, Bookmark It

TLT Center Summer SeriesSeton Hall University

Mary Zedeck, Instructional DesignerJune 20, 2012

Agenda

• Resources• Overview• Tools– Delicious – the granddaddy– Pinterest – what’s so Pinteresting?– Diigo – a demonstration

• Implementation discussion• Additional tools

Workshop Resources

Overview

• Why?• Social Bookmarking…Digital/Content Curation• Social?• Terminology– Bookmark, Pin, Link– Tag– Folksonomy

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Delicious

• One of the first popular social bookmarking sites• “All your bookmarks in one place”• Discover, Share, Follow• Individual or collaborative• Private or public• Embedded tags• Browser buttons• Profile• Glossary

Delicious Glossary

• Link (bookmark) – a website added to your collection

• Stack – a set of links related to a topic• Feed – your network’s activity on delicious• Tag – word or words assigned to identify a link• Tag Bundles – way to organize existing tags

into groups

Examples

• Role-Play in the Classroom• QR Code Resources • Crowdfunding• Flipped Classroom

Delicious Hands-On

Pinterest• Latest buzz• Visually focused collection of information– Photos, videos, quotes

• 11 million+ users, ~70% women• Big brands, small brands, individuals, magazines,

photographers, educators…• Individual and Collaborative• Easily share on Facebook and Twitter• Profile• Glossary

Pinterest Glossary

• Pin – an image or video added to a board• Pinning – adding a pin to a board• Board – a set of pins related to a theme• Re-pinning – grabbing a pin on someone’s

board and copying it to yours• Likes – allow you to high five another pinner• Sharing – with your social network

Examples• Nordstrom• Small Things• Seton Hall Housing and Residence Life• 1st Grade Teacher• Lesson Plan Ideas• Marvelous Math• Free Tools for Teachers• Vicki Davis• 16 Ways Teachers are Using Pinterest

Delicious vs Pinterest

• Delicious Stack for Nonprofit Technology Infographics

• Pinterest Board for Nonprofit Infographics

Pinterest Hands-On

Diigo• Layout similar to Delicious• More tools• Snapshot, capture, highlight, annotate, sticky notes,

read later • Advertising• Education account• Evolution and overview of Diigo: http://www.diigo.com

/• Groups: http://groups.diigo.com/index • Person search: http://www.diigo.com/people/search

Examples

• MDEbookmarks• Josh Allen• Mr. Barnes – Language Arts• Diigo in Education Resources• Diigo in Education Group

Ideas for Students/Classroom Discussion

• Delicious• Pinterest– Where does food come from?– Bugs

• Diigo

Additional Cool Tools

• Symbaloo – visual bookmarking and homepage, webmixes (tile boards)

• Clipboard – visual bookmarking, allows you to save games and apps and play them within your clipboards

• Educlipper – in beta, focused on discovering and sharing educational materials

• Bitly – shorten links and/or save, share, and discover links• Pocket – save links from your browser or from apps like

Twitter• Learnist – Pinterest for education• Pearltrees – visual social library