At the time when I was a new visitor to Toronto I was also learning about delicious and I was struck by the similiarities of the learning experience in which I was engaged. In both situations I used a personalised,creative and multisensory approach to making meaning from these new experiences. Not for me the Delicious tutorial or planned walking tours of the best sites as a highly motivated learner facing really meaningful tasks I was fast out of the blocks.
I was quick to size up the city and delicious, looking for the familiar, making connections with other tools or places, seeking the novelties and differences, and scanning around to get a firm orientation. Next phase was looking at the small contained chunks of information of delicious, pushing the buttons, skimming the information to get the guist of it, at the same time jumping ahead mentally and making judgements as to the usefulness of this tool. I paused longest at the HELP section before deciding to join up.
My learning seemed to be moving through an action cycle in which I was both implicitly and explicitly planning , taking action to unpack the site and learn essential skills, reflecting on my journey to that point, evaluating the efficiency of the tool and then returning to another moment of planning as I reached deeper within the tools capabilities.
Delicious is a great tool to share with our adult literacy learners and I would begin with posing a question ' Any ideas how we can keep track of those great sites you keep finding?' Mindmapping is a useful approach for capturing the multiple responses and follow this up with knowledge building strategies to develop a conceptual map of delicious. Using delicious as a collaborative knowledge management tool engage and delight learners who are always looking for time saving methods.
Where I am learning a new technology or being a first time international visitor the learning experience is personal, creative, and enjoyable.
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