Social Bookmarking & RSS For Research & Teaching
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This document discusses how social bookmarking and RSS feeds can be used for research and teaching. It provides examples of how RSS feeds and social bookmarking allow users to create dynamic lists of web resources and share content. Specific tools mentioned include Delicious, Google Reader, Bloglines, and RSSFWD. The document also provides examples of how these tools can be used to follow research topics, create alerts, and embed feeds and bookmarked content on websites and course pages.
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Social Bookmarking & RSS For Research & Teaching
- 1. Rudy Leon College Libraries [email_address] AIM: leonre3309 http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/ Social Bookmarking & RSS For Research & Teaching
- 2. These powerful tools allow us to create dynamic lists of useful web-based resources Library course page 1 (Africa) Library course page 2 (ColdWar) Journal TOC alert (TOC) Feed of Google news search (news) Things you can do with RSS feeds & Social bookmarking 2
- 3. What is it? A way to share content between computers- a replacement for browser-based bookmarks A way to discover useful content A way to import useful websites into your classes And students can contribute their recs as well Why is it useful? Web-based Tags instead of folders – items can be placed in multiple categories Shareable via URLs, networks, RSS feeds, tags… Social Bookmarking?
- 4. RSS Feeds Defined? Really Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary A way to syndicate content from a web page Create content in one place and display it another Create? Your search, your alert, your collection of links
- 5. Where do I find them? Blogs News sites Database vendors Publisher web sites Content sharing sites, such as Flickr, de.licio.us, YouTube
- 6. Laura Carscaddon, “RSS & Blogs” Friday Social, University of Arizona Libraries
- 7. How will they help me? Follow research on a topic: TOC alerts from publishers and vendors Search alerts from databases MyEBSCO Science Direct Ingenta MyJSTOR (coming soon) News, blogs, other web-based information sources Follow tags of interest, and bookmarks of interesting people
- 8. Library course page 2 (ColdWar) Bookmarked selected declassified archives with de.licio.us. Used del.icio.us’ handy linkroll tool to populate the page Dynamic Journal TOC alert (TOC) RSS to javascript Set up a journal alert (can also do this for searches) Converted alert to javascript using feed2js Embedded in webpage Feed of Google news search Google news search for topic Created javascript Back to those examples…
- 9. Reading Feeds Feed Reader or Aggregator Bloglines Google Reader and iGoogle MyYahoo Netvibes If you don’t want to use a reader: RSSFWD You can also bookmark the feed source and tag it with a social bookmarking tool and embed it in a web page
- 10. Adding to your site Furl and del.icio.u s both allow you to add content to your website (or CMS) through RSS feeds and javascript For example Turn your RSS feed into javascript – which can then be pasted into your website
- 11. Think about what you want to share and strategize best way to share it Select a tool that meets your needs If tagging is part of your tool, pre-think some taxonomy How will you differentiate sections (class as a whole, particular topics) Will you ask students to participate? What do you need to do to get started?
- 12. How could you use this? Create a tag for a class ( LIBR101 ) Add websites and articles to your social bookmarking tool of choice and tag them as LIBR101 Your students can contribute as well Use their own profiles to add material with same tag Add tags for your consideration Create the javascript to embed on your web page, or grab the RSS feed for the tag and view in RSS reader
- 13. Why use del.icio.us ? Most common Icons for adding easily found Common parlance Some others? List at wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarking Furl : allows you to store a copy; provides RSS feeds and email notification; can see who follows you Connotea and CiteULike are science oriented; your discipline may favor a specific tool Social Bookmarking Tools
- 14. A note on javascript Quick and easy Feed2js
- 15. Modern Africa Library course page: http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/ClassesSP2008/HIST480_Modern_Africa.html Espionage & the Cold War library course page http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/ClassesSp2007/Hist395B-Primary _ Sources.html TOC alert http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/LTEC/del.icio.us_RSS.html#TOC Supreme Court news feed http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/LTEC/del.icio.us_RSS.html#news del.icio.us http:// del.icio.us / My links for this workshop http:// del.icio.us/rudyleon/LTECwkshp Social bookmarking list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarking Furl http:// www.furl.net / My Furl folksonomies tag http:// www.furl.net/member/rudyleon?topic = folksonomies Connotea http:// www.connotea.org / CiteULike http:// www.citeulike.org / Bloglines http:// www.bloglines.com / Google Reader http:// www.google.com /reader iGoogle http:// www.google.com/ig MyYahoo http://cm.my.yahoo.com/p/1.html Netvibes http:// www.netvibes.com / RSSFWD http:// www.rssfwd.com / http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/LTEC/del.icio.us_and_RSS.html Links in presentation http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/LTEC/del.icio.us_RSS.pptx
- 16. Rudy Leon Instruction & Collection Development Librarian SUNY Potsdam College Libraries Potsdam, NY 13676 http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre [email_address] x3309 Gtalk: rudy.leon AIM: leonre3309 This presentation is available at http://www2.potsdam.edu/leonre/LTEC/del.icio.us_RSS.pptx Questions? Comments?