My son, who works in NYC as a Web developer for a large international company, introduced me to Delicious a couple of years ago. I downloaded links from my work and home computer to the Delicious site. It's been a great way to organize websites and to have access to those bookmarks from any Internet connection. Prior to using Delicious, I'd constantly be searching my home computer for links stored on my work computer and vice versa. Now this web tool makes access to my stored bookmarks from any computer but also enables easy organizing by tagging each bookmark into categories. It's a good example of a powerful, free, Internet based tool that can be used by students and faculty to help organized the overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet.
This excellent Youtube video (you can find it by doing a Youtube search for social bookmarking) explains quicky and clearly how Delicious works.
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Have you tried Diigo.com? They have an educational and group method that is great for the classroom. A teacher can set up a group and create student accounts. Students can then find links and add them to the group as resources, learning to tag their sites for research. Check it out...as they say in Thailand. "Same, Same, but different" ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Jeff,
ReplyDeleteNo, I have not, but thank for the insight. I will check it out.
Cheers,
Paul
Paul,
ReplyDeleteThanks for introducing me to delicious - we are lucky to have that cutting edge son of yours keeping us up on the latest and greatest! Next we need to master Basecamp! Remember when we learned about Google Docs and were awed by it - who knew what was coming down the line!