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Delicious

Dawn Cox

ED Prod Dev

    I really like delicious for use in the classroom.  I have had this linked directly to my website in the past so that my students can easily get to links that i want them to use.  This has increased learning time by having the information right at the fingertips which also eliminates the students going to websites they should not be at. 

I like this social bookmarking site because I am forever saving websites at work and then I always want them when I am at home working on different programs.  I previously would have to wait til Monday to get back to my computer and be able to find the websites I bookmarked. 

I also enjoy the fact that these bookmarks can be shared with others on the web and I can get to other people's delicious accounts easily to see if there are websites on there that I want to use.

     I really like the tagging feature in delicious.  You can tag or give a nickname to each site that you have bookmarked.  You can give each page a tag or multiple tags to organize it how you see fit.  Often you can put different tags on a site to organize it so you can get to it and remember it easily.  There is no hierarchy when using tags. You can even create a tag bundle which links other tags together.  For example if you have saved many different sweet recipe sites you can link each of them in one tag bundle by calling them sweet recipes then all your tags for sweet recipes will be linked. 

    A subscription is when you go to the subscription page and enter in a key word that you want to watch.  For example you could enter Technology teacher and then it will look for bookmarks saved with a tag like this and it will send it to you.  You must add a subscription to get started.  The subscription feature allows you to follow different tags by creating a subscription and then the system does it for you. 

    The numbers to the right of your bookmarks are the number of individuals that also have this website.  This lets you know if this is a very popular site or not.  I enjoyed looking at all my bookmark numbers.  I had one site that only nine other people had and then I had another website that had over thirteen hundred people that had bookmarked this site. 

 

accessed on February 16, 2009  http://delicious.com/help/faq  

 

accessed on February 16, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us