Last month I had the opportunity to preset at two business education teacher’s seminar on the use of Web 2.0 technology for the classroom AND work. The response to my presentations were extremely positive and therefore I decided to share here also.

For the presentation I used the same powerpoint that I used at the Helix conference but I focused one a few items that I thought would be more beneficial for instructors.

Today I will just talk about del.icio.us. What is it? It’s basically a free social, online, bookmark. When you use your Internet Explorer or Firefox bookmark, you’re saving your favorite site to that particular computer that you are on. What if you’re like me and you work on more than one machine? Quite a hassle and I remember always emailing myself links AND never finding the time to add that link to the other computer’s favorites. With del.icio.us, no matter what computer you’re on, you’ll always have access to the same bookmark. No matter where I am at I can easily access and add content to my del.icio.us.

Through del.icio.us not only can you easily access and bookmark websites from multiple computers you can also easily organize by tagging, see what others who saved that same website also saved (great for research), subscribe to other users’ bookmarks or just a particular tag, and share through different methods.

Before I move on, watch this video. It will help clear up what I just mentioned above.

To make life a lot easier, there are del.icio.us plugins that you can use for your browser. Internet Explorer and Firefox users can install del.icio.us on their browser and save sites as easy as they would when using the regular browser favorites method.

If you still want to get more details on the how-to, please watch this video that I created:

Part II coming out soon!

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Issues.
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