Thursday, January 15, 2009

delicious Form

Anytime your browsing history is deleted, you will need to re-login to your delicious account. To the toolbar on the lower right of this page, I have added a copy of the delicious form that you can keep in a prominent place at your reference desk. It's useful to keep this information around, since we have so MANY accounts and passwords to remember these days.

akg

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Intersession Assignment

Welcome back! There's lots to do before our next class.

Your intersession assignment is as follows:

  1. Navigate to HCPLLINX's account (use what you now know about delicious to find your way there). Explore this member's network of branches.
  2. Navigate to http://www.prattlibrary.org/findanswers/index.aspx?id=24644, and explore Enoch Pratt Free Library's delicious network of departments.
  3. Save at least 10 favorite links in your delicious account. Be sure to tag and describe them well. There is an optional exercise below that will quickly build your set of links.
  4. Navigate to http://delicious.com/deliciousclass. Explore the list of links using the tag sidebar on the right. Try to reorganize the way the links appear (cloud, list, alpha, etc).
  5. Network with delicousclass by becoming it's fan. Explore our network thoroughly as it changes and grows. Revisit this activity 3 or 4 times over the next 2 weeks to contribute to the development of this network by:
  • becoming mutual fans of at least 5 members of this class
  • saving links for your fans
  • viewing links that your fans have saved, and saving them for yourself.

6. Add a comment to this blog entry. Let us know how you fared while doing this intersession assignment. Please use the blog entry area to tell about any challenges or pitfalls you encountered, as well as your pleasant surprises, and "ah-ha" experiences.

Optional: Navigate to https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/import and follow the prompts to import your browser's favorites into your delicious account. (Be advised that anyone will be able to view your links).