Thing # 17 - Delicious

The social bookmarking site Delicious is a wonderful way to bookmark and save specific information found on the internet for later use. I enjoyed using Delicious and will probably continue to use it in the future. It is helpful to save webpages and links to certain topics that I may be browsing on any computer, not just my home or work computer. Another great thing that I noticed about Delicious is that it allows you to create "stacks" of bookmarked links that are narrowed to your liking. You can then share these "stacks" of links with others by making them public. Teachers can take advantage of this social bookmarking tool by simply being social. When you add educational friends, you open your circle of educational influence and gain ideas for more effective teaching strategies to be used inside your classroom. I found Delicious very similar to Diigo in its use of tags. Tags are a great way of organizing your multitude of bookmarks. Also through tags, you are able to view other people's information more efficiently by the tag that they narrow their saved information with. Since I am fairly new to Diigo and Delicious, I am going to navigate through and utilize both for a while to see which one I think will fit best into my lifestyle and preferences.