On the Trails

Teachers who use del.icio.us linkrolls on their classroom web pages provide a wonderful service for themselves and their students.  Once a linkroll is created and posted on a web page, the list of web resources can increase dynamically when resources are bookmarked.

Example

In the example above, I have many linkrolls on my science page.  The first linkroll, called the Solar System, is made out of web resources that I have tagged using the name SolarSystem. The next linkroll, called Earth, lists a number of resources tagged with the word Earth.

In order to create a linkroll, please have open the following web sites in tabs/Quicknote:

• Your MyTeacherPages web site - please login
• Your del.icio.us account - please login
• These directions opened in QuickNote

1. Create a typical subpage in MTP

2. Click on the html tab (see hand at the bottom of this graphic)
3. Go to the tab with your del.icio.us account opened and logged in
1. Near the top right hand corner of the del.icio.us page, click on the word settings
2. Under the column labeled Blogging, click on linkrolls
3. Scroll down to Display Options and change
1. show (change the number of items you wish to show) items
2. title - to something appropriate (if your resources are about the Earth, call the title - The Earth)
3. check show tags and show notes
4. choose an icon or none (if you don’t know what RSS is, skip that)
5. choose a bullet type
6. check only these tags (type in the name of the tag you wish to create the list from)
7. you can keep show your del.icio.us username and show add me to your network link
4. Scroll up to Linkrolls and copy all the code in the box - the code starts with <start type=”….
4. Go to the tab with your where your MTP subpage is created
5. Paste the Linkroll code you made in Step 3
6. Click Save
7. Click View Page

If you want to add more resources to this list, just bookmark resources with the same tag.

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