General help

Once you're set up, adding weblinks to any topic takes 3 clicks.  You do not even need to be logged into Moodle.

What you need:
Firefox browser with the del.icio.us extension (both free)
A del.icio.us account (free)

**If you are familiar with delicious, skip the next paragraph**

Delicious is a "social bookmarking" service.  Once you set up an account and add the firefox extension, you can add a bookmark by navigating to the site you want to save and clicking on the "tag" button that appears on your navigation bar (once you install the firefox extension).  A new window pops up that allows you to add "tags."  For those who are unfamiliar with tags, they are an alternative to folders.  Instead of storing a bookmark in a folder on your computer (usually never to be seen again!), del.icio.us lets you add descriptive words to the link that you can later search.  For instance, if I wanted to save this site, I would "tag" it with the words "moodle" and "forum."  When I search my links for moodle and/or forum, a link to this site would come up along with any other site that I tagged "moodle."  Below your own personal links, sites that other delicious users tagged "moodle" show up (hence the term "social bookmarking").  Your del.icio.us links are available from any computer with internet access, and there is nothing to install on your computer.

On the Moodle side, set up a "remote rss feeds" block.  Go into configuration and click on the "manage all my feeds" tab.  In the "add a news feed URL" box, enter the following:

http://del.icio.us/rss/<yourusername>/<tagname>;

For instance, if I wanted to display all the links that I tag "metabolism" I would enter (my username is yourfriendjake):

http://del.icio.us/rss/yourfriendjake/metabolism

Click "add", then click on the "configure this block" tab.  Check the box of the feed you just created, then add the title you want to appear on the block.  I choose to display the item's description (the default is no).

Now, whenever I tag a page with "metabolism"  on delicious (3 clicks) it will appear in this block.  When tagging, whatever is entered in the "description" box shows up as the title of the URL, and whatever you type in "notes" displays as the description of the URL (if you choose to make descriptions visible).  The actual tag word is not displayed.

Now, when you come across a good resource on the internet, just tag it.  When you get to that unit in your course, configure the block (or another block) to point at that tag.