I have embedded a Tag Roll at the bottom of this Blog through the free social boomarking application, Del.icio.us. According to Franklin and van Harmelen (2007), “a social bookmarking service provides users the ability to record (bookmark) web pages, and tag those records with significant words (tags) that describe the pages being recorded (p. 5).A Tag Roll allows you to show a ‘cloud’ or list of your Del.icio.us tags as part of your website.
Once you’ve created a Del.icio.us account and have started to tag web pages, you can go in to settings, and copy your Tag Roll in to a web page, such as a blog. Del.icio.us provides you with HTML code that you can copy and paste in to you Blog through the the Third party/ HTML Content page element.
When you view my Tag Roll, some words or names appear bigger than others. Tags that are repeated more frequently can be set-up to appear larger (although this can be edited).
As a Del.icio.us account holder you can connect with other users to take advantage of their bookmarks.
Another example of a social bookmarking application is http://www.bibsonomy.org/
Social bookmarking, says Franklin and van Harmelen (2007), allows Educational practitioners to “build up collections of resources (p. 5)."
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