Luddite Learning

Del.icio.us is delicious!

I loved Week 4 of the MLA course! Signing up for del.icio.us was very easy (now that I remember to NOT use my work e-mail) and using it was very intuitive. Using del.icio.us really appeals to my inner indexer.

I easily viewed the SJLibraryLearning2 site on digital libraries and could move through the ’saved by’ link to other views with tags and categorizations. I could wander through the pages for hours, if I had the time.

I bookmarked 5 sites in del.icio.us: the MLA course blog, my blog, the ACOG Webtreats, the SOGC sexuality site, and the British family planning site. I was surprised that only one person had bookmarked the MLA site to date, but please that 2 other people (not from ACOG) had bookmarked the ACOG WEBTREATS, and that 13 people had also marked the British family planning site, and 24 had marked the SOGC sexuality site. Oh, then I bookmarked a few more that I bumped into in the SJLibraryLearning2 site. Such fun!

I can see using Del.icio.us for my bookmarks, and I would like to explore some of the other options (CiteULike and Connotea) for managing recommended new articles and reports. I will need to play with them to see if they can replace my manual system that I’m currently using.

I will also recommend either CiteULike or (probably) Connetea to other staff, especially those who are always working with huge bibliographies for their projects!

I have wondered where clouds came from – and now I know. The greatest use of them that I saw recently was in an art exhibit at Touchstone Galleries. Real-time clouds for the two Democratic candidates were flashing on the floor as part of an interesting piece.