Julie Hannaford Director, Information Resources & Services OISE, University of Toronto Image credit to: cialBookmarking.pptx

 In a nutshell, RSS is “automated web surfing” – Dave Winer (  The content comes to you, instead of you going to it!  Subscribing to an RSS feed means that you can easily track changes and additions; it’s a great way to stay current with blogs or other RSS-enabled content  For a little RSS history, check here:  

 RSS newsfeed(s)  On Web pages or blogs, look for “subscribe” links, an orange square:, an XML symbol:, an RSS symbol: or  RSS feed reader or aggregator  A reader will store all of your feeds, automatically check for feed updates and allow you to read or hear the new content  Examples: Bloglines Google Reader Microsoft Outlook

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Note: you can use Manage subscriptions to organize your feeds into folders

 Right click on the RSS Feeds heading  Select Add a New RSS Feed…  Then paste the URL into the box

 RSS feeds in U of T’s databases:  Scholars Portal example Be alerted when new content is added – follow specific journals or be alerted when content matches your research interests Popular Databases Scholars Portal Search Run search, then go to Alert Me use My Research to save alert  Similar capabilities can be found in Scopus, WilsonWeb, etc.

 Tagging (adding keywords) websites, videos and photos, in a way that is meaningful to you  Sharing those sites and tags with others

 Social bookmarking/tagging of websites  A good introduction:  Store favourites in ways that are meaningful to you  Create a network of colleagues/collaborators  Subscribe to tags in subject areas that are of interest to you   Search hints:

 Individual/institutional tagging  Researching and storing of sites:  Build a learning community  Class chooses one tag and contributes to delicious using that tag  Class members recommend sites to one another  Build a class archive:  Use for group work  ‘notes’ field in delicious allow for commentary/quality notes about sites, sharing of sites during collaborative research  Use code to add list of sites or tags to Blackboard course  Course readings

 Go to: Settings – Blogging to get code so that you can display your Delicious websites or tags in Blackboard (or any other website)  Link Rolls allows you display your bookmarks  Tag rolls allows you to display your tags  Adjust the settings to match your preferences  Choose a title  Choose the number of sites/tags to display  Decide whether to use bullets or not  Decide how to sort your content  As you make these choices, code is automatically generated for you

 Copy the code from Delicious into Blackboard  Within Blackboard, you MUST use Source mode  Choose the <> icon to toggle Source mode on

 Site that allows you to upload, share and tag images  Find useful images  Flickr works with: fd’s flickr toysfd’s flickr toys  Display images in new ways  Use Flickr code so that your photos are displayed on your blog or website   Follow the selections to generate the code

 Use to explain and illustrate:    Allows for analysis via the ‘notes’ feature  Allows student commenting to build discussion  Search for images to support presentations – an alternative to Google Images:   Creative Commons  Virtual fieldtrips or any type of visual portfolio:  UI Design Samples UI Design Samples  Book displays: Clemens & Alcuin Book DisplaysClemens & Alcuin Book Displays

 A service that allows users to upload and tag videos that they would like to share with others  Search for relevant content to use in lectures/presentations

 Record events/lectures, allow students to comment, provide analysis  to to  jyW8&feature=related  Tutorials : Formatting a Research Paper in APA Style: Information Literacy: Identify Your Sources:

 Social Software: You Are an Access Point by Daniel Chudnov:  Using Del.icio.us in Education by Gabriela Grosseck: Education Education  Using Flickr in the Classroom by David Jakes:  Web2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software by Michael Stephens: ere=ckey&what= ere=ckey&what=