For Class Discussion (to prepare in advance):
Two tool categories for this week: 1 Microblogging (Twitter) and 2 Social Bookmarking tools (Delicious and Diigo). Twitter is more for what are you doing now or sharing resources very briefly and quickly, while social bookmarking: Delicious focuses on sharing and managing resources using tags, and Diigo does similar things with more features for annotating and highlighting (and also sharing them).
Two tool categories for this week: 1 Microblogging (Twitter) and 2 Social Bookmarking tools (Delicious and Diigo). Twitter is more for what are you doing now or sharing resources very briefly and quickly, while social bookmarking: Delicious focuses on sharing and managing resources using tags, and Diigo does similar things with more features for annotating and highlighting (and also sharing them).
Popular Tools - Course Google Site at https://sites.google.com/site/idt351class/
- Twitter (How to use Twitter video - 4 min, Twitter basics from Twitter)
- Delicious - About Delicious (5 min)
- Delicious Video Tutorial (9 min) As of Mar 01, couldn't find any tutorial on YouTube that matches the current version of Delicious, but from these two, should get ideas about main features and how to utilize them without much difficulty.
- Diggo (What Diggo is and does, and the company site has many useful tutorials)
- Of course, social bookmarking has many promises, thus more tools/services came up such as Evernote, Pocket, and Pinboard. Comparison summary can be found here.
Further Resources - These are for those who want to explore further...
For Twitter
For Twitter
- Search within Twitter
- Instacurate - Turn your Twitter timeline into a personalised news site, in an instant.
- Tweetdeck - A tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and publishing Tweet messages.
- Hootsuite - A social media dashboard.
- Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter
- Collaboration examples using Twitter
- Twitter in Academia
- Why I Still Love Twitter by Isabelle Jones
- How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, organize information –>knowledge by Howard Rheingold
- Edmodo - something like Twitter, more for education
- Using del.icio.us to create an easy, always updated online portfolio by Michele Martin
- Learning in the Social Workplace (by Jane Hart) - (blog about how and why social tools help employees learn better)
You can comment on any of the following (in your answer, specify which one you are answering between #1 and #2:
- Both RSS and Social Bookmarking tools are to improve "collective" information management and sharing. What similarities or differences, or strengths or challenges did you find between social bookmarking vs. RSS?
- Which of these tools: twitter, delicious, and diigo, or any other will you adopt and use actively? For those who resist, what's your strategy? What should you consider for organizational/class wide adoption/use?
32 comments:
well first of all, i would like to start off by saying that the three social networks are very great when it comes to social networking, i have had previous experiences with them especially twitter, i had a twitter account but i lost my password for it, so i had to create a new one. delicious is also good too but i have not had any previous experiences with it so far. diigo is very intresting when i went to their website, i could see that it offers alot of things that we can use in conjunction with twitter and delicious. But, one can also see the similarities between all of them respectively. RSS is very diffrent from twitter and diigo but it has the basic functions of delicious because one can use it to bookmark websites. I really like this feature alot compared to the others because i use alot of bookmarks to keep track of the websites i visit. I plan on using twitter alot more than the other websites because i find twitter more appealing to my needs and more familiar with the setup. I think these can be applied to numebrous things, place, schools etc because people need to be informed about these sites and how useful it can be for them.
Out of all these tools, I feel Twitter and Diigo will be of the most use to me. However, I do not plan to regularly tweet at this point in time. Currently I have very few followers, so my tweets essentially go unread. For the time being, Twitter serves as a sort of RSS for all my entertainment sources. Most of the blogs I follow and YouTube channels I subscribe to have Twitter pages linking me to the newest content quickly. I plan to use Diigo immediately. As an English major, we read many critical articles over the entirety of the semester. Because these articles tend to be lengthy (10+ pages), professors request that the students to print out the articles so the department can allocate paper resources elsewhere. In Diigo, I can read the articles online, and neatly highlight and note questions I may have while reading the article, and since I don't enjoy seeing my handwriting all over an article, Diigo will provide a cleaner copy for me to bring to class. And sometimes, our professors only want us to decipher the article, but we need not bring it to class. With Diigo, I can annotate the article without having to print it out. So I'm not wasting paper!
Out of all of the tools I feel that I will use Twitter and Diigo. Twitter I like because you are able to follow different people to read their tweets and also comment on them. There are interesting ones out there to read. Also you are able to tweet yourself which could probably be useful at times for some people, but not really for me. I really do not have enough followers to make it all that practical for me to spend my life doing so. Diigo on the other hand can be useful especially if you are working on different computers. I think it can be very useful for school work. I think this because some of the time I start things at school and then have to finish them at home, or visa-versa. This is useful because then you can find your sources easily and conveniently. I already use Twitter on a semi regular basis, but I am considering adopting Diigo to help with moving from computer to computer to do school work. Other then that I don't think that I will use it all that much. Diigo would be great in a classroom setting for a teacher to be able to give their students web addresses for classes. I think more teachers should look into it.
I am not like most other people in the aspect that I do not have a social network that I personally belong to. The reasoning behind this is because I feel like they are a form of addiction. For this reason I will not get a Twitter account nor a Facebook profile. Diigo is a tool that I feel most people would benefit from. There are so many benefits to using this tool. You are able to find, highlight, bookmark important sites or information and put it on to you cloud account. This is a very cool idea because then you can access the information that you bookmarked from a variety of mobile devices. In addition others could view what information you discovered if you share it with them. This could come in handy when needing to share files. I also agree that Diigo should be included into curriculum.
I do not see myself using Delicious or Diigo because I do not find them as useful as the RSS tools.I believe that Delicious is a useful tool because you can see what others searched and find similar topics on the subject. I can see the use for research or hobbies. I use Twitter frequently because comments are short and quick to skim.
I think Twitter is probably the most likely tool I'll use out of the social media we looked at this week. I think it could be a lot more useful than something like Facebook that is far too easy to waste time with. For that reason and all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, I haven't used it nearly as much as others. Diigo and Delicious are kind of interesting but I'm not sure how I would really change how I've just begun to understand using RSS feeds, I find them more useful at a later time.
I would use diigo if I planned on using a bookmark program. I do not feel at this time that I need one.Most of what I like I go out and find in my free time. Sites I frequent are etched into my memory as well as the drop down bar of my web browser. I do like the features of Diigo such as being able to add sticky notes. Twitter does not seem like my style. Following people and or having them follow me is creepy. My thought is if you want to know about me talk to me do not stalk me from afar. I would say I prefer the RSS because they are direct. But the sticky notes from Diigo are sweet.
Interesting to see pros and cons of using Twitter for easy share and privacy reasons. Would like to see how Nicole R is using it to link to other sites, such as YouTube. It is interesting to see many like Diggo for its note and highlighting features without loosing work or changes to compare/see others' work. IMHO, Delicious is easier to see numbers of people bookmarked to tell me how popular the site is, then you can use the reader/RSS to subscribe to your or others' bookmark items (that show up on the bottom of the page).
As a student, using all of these social network is fun and very useful. In any case I wouldn't use twitter nor the other social network, except for facebook. I would rather use RSS tools instead, in order to find what I'm looking for. The only time that I would use these social networks, is to farther my research.
#2: Out of these tools the closest I can see myself using maybe Twitter. It most likely will not be for educational purposes maybe if I was pressured by my friends into getting one in the future. I am also a huge Mixed Martial Arts fan and whenever an event comes to the area they tend to give out free tickets, they will post something on Twitter informing fans where and when they are going to be in the city to get free tickets. To be honest one of the major reason I do not have Twitter account is because a while me and my brother made an oath not to fall into social media trappings. There are too many things to worry about in life and I don’t feel like hearing other people complain about some simple things. For educational purposes I would say it is best to adopt delicious, while Twitter is good but it can become very distracting. One could start on a good path on Twitter then after a while lose their selves talking to Celebrities or what is the latest gossip. Delicious is more straightforward you look for a site you interested put it down on Delicious then it is bookmarked for you as long as you remember your log in. While there are still some opportunities to fool around for example bookmark a junk website, the chances are much slimmer compared to Twitter. As of Diigo I still have to use it more in order to form a good opinion on it.
there are a couple different similarities and differences between RSS and social media. first we will start off with similarities between the two. they both gather information that you have liked/follow on each of there websites. they also allow for different company's to find you. there are more difference's though. social media allows you to make post's while RSS feeds do not. RSS allows you to group different things into different catagories but social media doesn't allow that. I will be adopting twitter because i'm not that big of a fan of Facebook anymore and i'd like to look for a new social media site that i can use. i should consider that my employers and my teachers will be able to see what i post on twitter so i shouldn't post anything that i wouldn't want them to see.
Both RSS and bookmarking tools are extremely easy, helpful ways to gather (and keep) information you are interested in. However, I do not see a way to use one or the other. I would always do both. RSS feeds have constantly updated information from a website. Bookmarking tools only bookmark one page on a website. If you want to remember something on your RSS feed, you would have to bookmark it. Likewise, if you want continued information from a certain website you bookmarked, you would have to subscribe to an RSS feed. They're not exclusive tools. Both are equally as useful, but not the same.
Twitter, on the small chance that you don’t know, is the free micro-blogging service that enables users to post short messages, or Tweets, that are delivered to friends, enemies, family, colleagues -- anyone who has subscribed. These are your followers. You may have one or several people.
Inside the classroom, Twitter can be used to review lessons and remind students what is going to be covered in class that day or the next. Teachers say tweeting a few quick review questions and some good Web sites add depth to their lessons. In turn, students can tweet their own questions and observations.
Twitter is a great way to keep your students thinking after class.
Great posts from many. I really like how Haley see these as complementary. Eric's caution about what remains is excellent. In fact, competition btw Facebook and Twitter, how people choose one over the other or both, utilize each is a very interesting and important area, simply because these two are now the most dominant social media. When it comes to analyze learners, what Omoruyi posted is very good to look at. Per Hasinah's post, I like to challenge, think about which tool will be most effective and efficient for described purposes. Compared to other social media, Twitter doesn't provide filters or mechanisms to control open vs. closed communications. With adult learning or training, described activities can work well. If at school or even higher ed, there can be too many distractions and management/control can be quite challenging.
Having had some experience with most of the tools mentioned, I was most surprised by Diigo, the only tool I hadn't used before. The organizational tools such as highlighting, sticky notes and its integration with Awesome Screenshots (which I had already been using for a while) makes it so easy to collect focused bits of information. I was also surprised at the simple but powerful collaboration tools within the service. Teachers could do so much with the groups and ability to start threads. It could truly be a one-stop shop for a classroom discussion and resource collection.
#2
I intend to eventually become an active user of Twitter. This falls in line with my plans for Youtube and blogging, and should be interwoven with them. It would be a kind of mini-blog, potentially with more frequent updates, and would probably let people know if either of the other two was updated, providing a link directly to the new content. The three of these would work quite well together.
When it comes to organizational or class-wide use, you need to make sure it is actually useful. If there is no real need for the group to have a twitter, or if it would be too distracting to be useful, it is probably best to not waste your time and energy with it. You would also need to know how it would be maintained: who would update it when? Who gets to access it? What is its proper use? If you cannot provide a satisfactory answer to these questions, it is probably best to not use it.
Two comments from Angie and Jake complement well. Great point - one should also consider maintenance and relevance/usefulness as key design factors.
I am currently a twitter user, and do not use it as often as most people do. I use it in both a social and learning manner. Socially I connect, follow and interact with friends and family. In a learning aspect I follow many different users that provide daily tips,information, and tutorials. Some examples include: Adobe, National Geographic, World Wildlife Fund, TechCrunch, British Museum, Animal Planet, and many more. The reason I follow these is to learn and gain knowledge on information they are sharing. Usually when I want to read into a tweet, theres a link that directs me to the entire article and website. If what I find is interesting to me I will retweet it or share it with other fellow tweeters. Other than that I do not post personal messages too much. My use of twitter, is to find a quick and easy way to follow and learn from users and topics I am most interested in. I find twitter to be just as useful as RSS tools because not only do i get information from the users I follow, but the people they follow and retweet shows up in my feed as well, allowing me to expand my learning experience.
Both social bookmarking and RSS have their downfalls, social bookmarking lacks credibility as for the most part individuals seem to post content that seems interesting to them or their opinions, without truly checking the source. RSS falls short due to the lack of filtering, yes you can apply filters later using different programs, but there is still some need which could be addressed in newer programming languages to remove the need for a filter. But these problems are not only limited to social bookmarking and RSS feeds, just look at the daily task of checking e-mail, in a perfect world there would be no need to check it daily because the individual would know from another means that they had an e-mail message from another individual, but instead the world we live in now, most e-mails are of some form of commercialism, either trying to get you to spend money at a certain location, or to waste your time in one way or another.
Rant over.
In reality there is no need for me to monitor anything outside of my day to dray life, scratch that. My day to day life and the issue of net neutrality. Now that I am no longer in the military, the events of genocide and other human rights violations do not directly effect my day to day life, and by participating in these events whether it be in day to day discussion with other people, or through the magically connected world of social media there is no noticeable difference in the outcome of my daily life.
The biggest similarity between social bookmarking and RSS is the fact they are used to collect information and organize it together in one place. The biggest difference between social bookmarking and RSS is that social bookmarking is used more for social purposes, and RSS more so for informational purposes. The biggest strength that RSS has over social bookmarking is that users are informed when new content has been updated, because they are subscribed to that particular feed. RSS also provides the actual content with the feed, while social bookmarking just gives you a link to where you can find the content. RSS, however, is pretty hard to filter and use to the best of its abilities. In regards to social bookmarking, even though it doesn’t inform you when content is updated, it has a better sense of community, and thus its biggest strength lies with the fact that all kinds of different information is available because it’s shared by so many different people. Popular social bookmarking websites tell you which sites have are popular and you’ll always have them in one place, which makes the traditional bookmarking option through your computer outdated. The biggest challenge for both of them is the fact that they are not as well-known and used by web users, but I believe that RSS is far more outdated than social bookmarking. Twitter is the biggest, and probably the only thing keeping social bookmarking popular in today’s culture.
I feel like RSS is made more for you to make it how you would like it as you can enter both educational things and personal things. You can enter in your friend’s blogs with RSS and you can make it totally fun things you like with no educational value. You can add anything to social bookmarking but I feel that it is set up to be more educational. With Diigo, it is set up as a tool to highlight and share your thoughts. Social bookmarking is more of a collaboration tool. RSS is to manage your favorite site which don’t have to be educational. However, you can argue that these two things do the same thing. On the surface, they are both in place collect and organize you things in one place. Social bookmarking is more social then RSS as you can share your thoughts with other people, it is not just for you. One of the great things for RSS is that it shows you the updated things. I have not heard of RSS or social bookmarking such as Diigo or delicious before this class.
The difference between RSS and social bookmarking is that RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format and social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. I do use twitter daily just to see what is new in the computer, comics, and gaming world. Twitter notifies me when there is a new tweet from any of the people I follow.
RSS is something that you can update so that you can see what you want to see. You can use RSS for both educational and personal uses. Social bookmarking is more educational and interactive. The only one that I have used is twitter but I mainly used it as the Public Relations Chair for my sorority.
i use mostly twitter, and so far i enjoy using it. i use twitter to connect with family and friends, and to follow organization and people to find news and other content that i want to read, and to see what other people say about a specific topic or event with the use of hashtag. i think twitter can used for education industry, giving students and teachers an easy way to communicate, share ideas any time they want. Students can follow the accounts that is associated with a specific class, making it easy for them to find information. Teacher can also tweet educational links for their students to read.
I don't normally think of RSS feeds and twitter being almost the same thing. But, in both the user receives updates from sources that they subscribe from. I think the big difference is really just the way the two are presented. Twitter delivers information in a way that is similar to an RSS feed, but instead of delivering blog updates, its showing short messages from users.
I liked Edmodo, the social network for classrooms. It works and looks a little like Facebook. The difference is that the network is much more closed. You have to be invited by the teacher of the class, and to get in you need to receive a code. You can set up groups for the students and keep the parents informed easily. It seems that since we've been pushing for more technology in the classroom, this is a really good tool for keeping a classroom organized online.
Social bookmarking and RSS share many qualities, however they are slightly different technologies. Some of the similarities that both have are: both include a title, a description, and a link back to the source web document. One of the benefits of RSS feeds over social bookmarking is that you get notified when new informations is available on your favorite blog, rather than checking only to find out that nothing has been updated.
#2. All three of these tools are very effective when it comes to social networking but one that sticks out to me and that I use everyday to keep up on daily information and news is Twitter. I follow many educational accounts on Twitter and keep up-to date on the latest news in the IDT world. I enjoy Twitter because it can be very useful when you need to know immediate information about a specific subject or just want to see what everyone is up to. I think this tool will be used more educationally as it continues to grow. Diigo is another tool that can be very useful but is different from Twitter as it focuses on different aspects. With Diigo, you can start a document or project and finish it at home if need be as you just log in to your account. Out of these two tools, I will still continue to regularly use Twitter because that is what I'm most comfortable with and know how to use very well. I am still learning Diggo but think it can be a great tool for me to use effectively for years to come.
Courtney's and Kathryn's post said it best - how social bookmarking and RSS are different and compare. Great use of twitter by Sabrina, Joe, Garrett, and Asmaa. Ken, this time, I have to disagree - as others share, social bookmarking as a filter to evaluate quality (# by others). Courtney makes a great point about how these tools are less known and used. For those who are twitter users, make sure to check tools like tweetdeck and hootsuite.com which makes managing twitter much easier.
I'd probably make the most use of Twitter myself, if only because I'm somewhat familiar with it. For RSS, it has its uses for educational content as you're able to use it to search for content along with being able to subscribe to users that publish good information.
I seem to have had a twitter account before this class but had never really used it. I still haven't used it that much since then. It is an interesting way to get information or find out about different things happening in the now. A lot of it to me just seems like useless information though, a lot of tweets are simply meant to be funny or gain a large attention. I currently use Evernote, this simple tool has a lot of power behind it and allows me to do multiple tasks.
Social bookmarking is simply a way to manage bookmarks or sites that you want to share with others. An RSS feed is generally a published article or news information that you have chosen to see in your feed, compared to a social bookmark that is shared to everyone and you may see it because your connected to whoever posted it or by proxy.
Nowadays social media is very helpful in learning and getting the information needed. Increasing resources with the existence of social media has become commonplace and there must be a strategy used. I think the features and sites that you write are important to get the comparison you need
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