Thing 17: Tagging and Social Bookmarking with Delicious

After viewing the short introductory video, I headed over to Delicious and created an account. Immediately I was looking at Featured Stacks. After searching in "educational technology," I came upon stacks at the top and links below that promised some ties to my search. The second largest link was from a website titled "howstuffworks.com." It is important to mention after opening my account that I did as the video had requested and placed a link in my toolbar marked "save on delicious." So, I went to howstuffworks.com and then clicked save on delicious, and a box popped up allowing me to make tags for my save. The tags are a great way to not only save links, but to re-find those links as vast additions of websites are added in the future. This is a great tool in any classroom, and would definitely help elementary teachers in that they could tag by different subject area as well as "homework help," "test preparation," and so on. Also, a teacher can access and save websites from the comfort of their home and be able to access their tagged links at work the next day from a different computer. Also, others can see my tags, so if a fellow teacher wants to see what websites I may be using in our are of curriculum, it's as easy as finding me on Delicious. It's easy to use and convenient, and as I've stated before, convenience is key.