Thursday, October 8, 2009

Thing #17

Del.icio.us

What can we say about this site. Best description for it is it is delicious. This website gives us the ability to bookmark sites that we like and while doing this give it tags that we think are relevant. Once they have been added we can at any point go to our bookmark list and have a look at them. Under our bookmarks we can click on any of the tags to just pull those links that relate to the tag which is very useful. One of the features about this site that really makes it stand out is the ability to see how many other users of del.icio.us have also bookmarked this site and what comments if any they have said about the link.

I think this site has great potential in the school setting. For teachers the fact that they can save the source of any information they use and share it with colleagues teaching the same course means that they are all on the same page and teaching the same material. For the students it means that they have the ability to see how many people have linked to a source and whether the feel it is reliable.

Brb - with my own delicious page. S

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