--- Forwarded Message from "Douglas Canfield" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: RE: language resources/link pages, Del.icio.us
>Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:07:12 -0600
>Thread-Topic: language resources/link pages, Del.icio.us
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>From: "Douglas Canfield" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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Todd,
Brilliant! I was exposed to del.icio.us recently and have been giving some (not
urgent or serious) thought to how to exploit this, and I think this is PERFECT!
I actually am getting some university support (cross fingers) to research some
pretty extensive media-rich links for several languages, and I would be happy to
share anything I find...I'm sure I'll find lots I'll want to use as well.
I'm out next week, but it might give me some time to look at it...
DOUG
Douglas W. Canfield
Director, International Media Center
Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Purdue University Calumet
IALLT Distributions Coordinator
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Sent: Fri 3/10/2006 10:22 AM
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Subject: language resources/link pages, Del.icio.us
Hello,
I went through our links/resources page last week to delete the links that had
expired and search for new resources. I imagine we all do this on a fairly
regular basis trying to keep everything as up to date as possible. This time I
did things a little differently. Instead of just adding and deleting links on
an html page, I added them to a del.icio.us account,
http://del.icio.us/languagetechnology and tagged them. I then used some
javascript they provide to display the links on our website,
http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls (you'll have to login, you can use username -
languagetechnology and password - password). The effect is something like this:
http://lis.dickinson.edu/Teaching/Learn%20Language/searchLangLinks.cfm (search
page)
http://lis.dickinson.edu/Teaching/Learn%20Language/Resources/ItalianResources.ht
ml (the Italian resources)
What I would propose is that everyone interested could post their links to this
Delicious account. Each person could then use javascript and the tagging system
to display certain links on their website. For example, I could have a page on
the French department website that just showed the pages tagged "French". When
others in LLTI added links with that tag they would appear on the site. A more
conservative approach would be to have the webpage only display links that had
been tagged with "French" and my school name "Dickinson". I would then check
back to Delicious once in a while to see what new pages everyone had added under
"French" and add the tag "Dickinson" if I wanted it displayed on my site. My
page would then be updated automatically. If you know a little bit of scripting
you can also make a search page for all of the resources by keyword.
The username and password for the delicious account are above. If you're
interested, please let me know. If you're unfamiliar with delicious or how the
javascript works I'd be happy to give a quick demo.
Todd
Todd Bryant
Language Program Administrator
Dickinson College
717-254-8941
Fax - 717-245-1456
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