Brad’s Ve-learning project

I have been working on populating the Delicious account.  For those in the know there is no great need to have explanatory notes etc, so this might be preferable to a WIKI for in-house use.  It seems useful to keep it running as an open window, & then bounce off each link with a right click ‘open in new window’.

The following email was sent to our staff…

“Further to my earlier email…

There are now 11 of us (as far as I know) with Delicious accounts.

Some of you have imported your favourites. All of these are imported as ‘private’, which means no-one else can view them.

Some of you have even been through & unlocked some of these to make them public, which is the idea behind the sharing thing.

As mentioned, there is now an account for bremertafe. I have pillaged a number of your shared favourites as a basis for building a core Bremer TAFE Delicious collection, & then bounced off these ideas & added quite a few others. Ultimately it would be nice to cover the needs of most of our jobs here (& possibly also be a precedent?). I have left out most ‘article’ type links & tried to keep it to useful practical work based stuff. It has been a work in progress & I’ve changed a few things as I’ve gone along, so as you play with it you may well think of a few obvious issues worth discussing.

It is located at http://del.icio.us/bremertafe

All 181 (so far) links appear in chronological order. The tags on the right of the screen are your search tool - you just click on whatever tag you might be interested in. If you scroll to the bottom of this to ‘tag options’ you will find they can be displayed either as a ‘list’ or a ‘cloud’. In the cloud, the more frequently used tags result in a heavier &/or larger font. You can also fine tune these by using the 1, 2 or 5 to indicate the cut off point for display (how much detail we use is obviously one of the issues). I have also created ‘bundles’ for government & suppliers, & you can display with or without the bundles.

Have a play.  Look at, for example, catalogues, or SearchEngines (the system only allows one word tags, hence the running of terms together), or through the Government sections. All the links we need for work, reference, purchasing, info lit sessions etc could be stored here, & (unlike favourites) stored under any tag/s & accessible from any net connection. Headings can be changed, explanatory notes can be added (e.g. see Zoho), tags changed / amended or whatever – immediately. From one screen we can access all intranet links, off-air recording links, subject links, reference links etc (though we would still need to keep them differently on the website)…You can access it by

• remembering the url,
• Googling ‘delicious’ (no you don’t have to worry about the punctuation) & simply adding bremertafe to the url, or
• even adding it to your favourites (just for use here of course).

Let me know if you want anything added, any explanations of how it works, or want the password to get yourself going.

Suggestions or feedback appreciated…”