Week 4 provided further exploration on a number of topics such as Social Bookmarking, Podcasting & Screencasting, Ning/Wiki, Twitter/Plurk, and Facebook.
Because of this class I have created a Delicious account and will continue to use this social bookmarking site both professionally and personally. I have discovered it to be a great way to save sites that I find useful in an organized fashion, rather than simply marking them as "my favorite" and then still having to search to find them and/or forgetting they were ever discovered in the first place. Also, I like that Delicious has its own "Search" feature that I can utilize. Rather than simply googling everything, it's nice to search in Delicious and find sites that other educators already found to be worthwhile. The final reason that I am now a Delicious fan is because I can provide my students with my account and direct them to a tab I have created specifically for them and a current project we are working on. This will save them much time and frustration...and the best part is that they can access this information from any computer that has Internet...it can't be left in their locker or the backseat of their friend's car! ;)
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I too have Delicious useful for students. The ease of access from any computer is great. The students in your program seem to really benefit from the use of technology. I am seeing the best work ever in American Problems from students that work with you and your colleagues. I am very appreciative of these tools and the students are finding new successes.
Delicious has grown on me as well. I think the only thing stopping me from using it more is that there are so many other tools out there, I tend to forget about it. Right now, I'm becoming obsessed with Google Reader---it's eliminating some of the use of Delicious due to the RSS feeds, so I don't use bookmarks as much anymore...
I need to work with my Delicious account on a greater level. I really have not worked with it in some time, but I think it is time to get back to it. Sometimes I feel the problem is that there is SO MUCH technology out there available to us, and only so much time to access, sign-up, log-in, and update it on a regular basis that I get tired! But, I will do my best to try everything at least three times!
Hi there,
reading your blogg this week about signing up for Delicious has encouraged me. We have had to do so much signing up and keeping up with stuff that I said not one more thing, but now or after reading your post, I am going to sign up if it will help get more organized. And you are right, with internet access from any computer, it removes alot of excuses assumming everyone has excessible computer access outside of school.
I know that this might be a challenge to many of my students, but there is the local library.(library plug)
Delicious is a good way to collect and organize important websites. It is also a good research tool, as we can look at what others have compiled on a given subject.
It could also be used as a research and reference tool for students. A classroom Delicious account would provide students with websites to refer to and could allow them to contribute their own.
You are so popular! 5 comments on your blog post.. you must be cool.
In addition to delicious I find diigo to be very useful
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