Social Bookmarking in Action

Derek N. MuellerSyracuse University

Monday, August 20, 2007

Scholarship in Action

• “The key to Scholarship in Action is the depth and breadth of connections that we can forge between the ‘work’ of the campus and the ‘work’ of our communities, at home and abroad.”

“Universities and Their Connected Communities: Creating Capital for the Future” by Nancy CantorMonday, March 6, 2006 | RPI, Troy, N.Y.

Del.icio.us in Act.ion

Del.icio.us in Act.ion

• A free social bookmarking platform online.• Used for keeping tags (viz., digital labels)

on whatever web sites you have encountered.

• Collect and annotate the bookmarks kept by you and by others.

• Associations, aid to memory, serendipitous (and/or systematic) path-finding.

Del.icio.us in Act.ion

• Online teaching

• Blogging

• CCC Online Archive

Del.icio.us in Act.ion

Del.icio.us in Act.ion: Reading Notes

Del.icio.us in Act.ion: Reading Notes+

Del.icio.us in Act.ion: Reading Notes++

Del.icio.us in Act.ion: Reading Notes++

From Jared Tarbell’s Node.Garden

Scholarship in Connection

• “The key to Scholarship in Action is the depth and breadth of connections that we can forge between the ‘work’ of the campus and the ‘work’ of our communities, at home and abroad.”

“Universities and Their Connected Communities: Creating Capital for the Future” by Nancy CantorMonday, March 6, 2006 | RPI, Troy, N.Y.

Del.icio.us in Act.ion• Fresh, chance encounters, discoverability, and

systematic serendipity.• Forming networks on the basis of affinity and

interest.• Transparency in collecting practices.• Participation in emergent, experimental online

spaces.• Proliferating the circulation of materials—my

own notes, teaching resources, and disciplinary archives.

• A slow-growth practice.

Social Bookmarking in Action

Derek N. MuellerSyracuse University

Monday, August 20, 2007

http://del.icio.us/dmueller/ccrday07