delicious

=del.icio.us=

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that lets you bookmark your favorite articles and web pages using tags and bundles. Because your links, tags, and bundles are saved online, you can access them from any computer. Then you can network with other people to share your bookmarks and see their bookmarks.

[|Visit del.icio.us]

Resource Links
Official Del.icio.us Website Resources


 * [|Del.icio.us Tools]
 * This page includes bookmarking buttons (Firefox/IE/Google Chrome) and add-ons for your browser or website.


 * [|Del.icio.us Education Tag]
 * This page lists all the recent pages that people have bookmarked using the tag 'education'.


 * [|Del.icio.us Blog]
 * Official blog of the del.icio.us team used to keep users up-to-date on the latest news for del.icio.us.

Videos Related to Del.icio.us
 * [|Social Bookmarking in Plain English]
 * This video was created by Common Craft, a company that creates educational videos on 21st century topics.


 * [|Learn Del.icio.us in 5]
 * This video quickly teaches the viewer how to use del.icio.us.

Other Resources
 * [|Del.icio.us Tutorial] by Janetta Garton
 * This is a 40-page PDF file with extensive instructions (visual and text) on how to use Del.icio.us.


 * [|Using Del.icio.us in Education] by Gabriela Grosseck
 * This is a research paper on using del.icio.us in an educational context
 * Del.icio.us to go
 * Mobile application for del.icio.us use

=__SWOT ANALYSIS__=

Strengths:

 * 1) No cost to open an account.
 * 2) No matter where you go, you can access all of your bookmarks.
 * 3) Allows you to categorize bookmarks by multiple tags.
 * 4) Can import current bookmarks from Safari / Internet Explorer.
 * 5) Can choose to make bookmarks public or private.
 * 6) It is an easy way to share and record information since you can bookmark sites with links to other sites.
 * 7) Able to network with other users to share bookmarks and notes.
 * 8) Able to bundle tags so searching for sites is easier and more efficient.
 * 9) Easy to rename and delete tags.
 * 10) Networking does not have to be reciprocal.
 * 11) Able to search within tags.
 * 12) Can organize and remember bookmarks more flexible than folders.
 * 13) Great to use if you have a work computer and a home computer - or if you get a new computer - you don't have to transfer favorites.
 * 14) Web browsing by people rather than a search engine, easier to find items of interest
 * 15) You can browse and search del.icio.us to find the cool and helpful bookmarks other users have saved.
 * 16) You can view the popularity of specific bookmarks.

Weaknesses:

 * 1) When saving bookmarks, numbers such as 5.1, 5.12 are not listed in numerical order.
 * 2) Controlling your tags can be overwhelming so keep it usable for yourself.
 * 3) It may take a long time to import your bookmarks.
 * 4) Allows both capital and lower case tags, making it more likely to create redundant tags.
 * 5) Sign up for students and teachers is cumbersome. They must create a yahoo id which will give students and teachers a yahoo email.
 * 6) Delicious will not create student accounts to bypass the yahoo id issue.
 * 7) School systems may block access to Yahoo login.
 * 8) Many links that are no longer available remain on the bookmark site and have to be manually removed by the author.
 * 9) Not compatible with Firefox 4.1 (last update 6/2011). Fire fox users should export items to a comparable program such as @Diigo
 * 10) Edit and Share buttons are not clearly marked.
 * 11) Often the link does not automatically import the basic information and must be hand-keyed.

Opportunities:
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 * 1) Brings all of your bookmarks together in one place. Collect them using tags that put them in similar categories together.
 * 2) Ability to network with people around the globe to share information.
 * 3) Encourages you to revisit and organize ALL your existing bookmarks, maybe even delete a few.
 * 4) You can take advantage of someone else's research thus reducing time spent looking for information/related websites.
 * 5) Easily gauge a site's popularity by viewing the number of users who have linked to it.
 * 6) You can collaborate with class or group using a shared account, special tag or networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant & useful for your class or group.
 * 7) I set up safe sites that I allow my students to use when they have finished classwork, sites that I want them to practice with for Math, for example.
 * 8) Separate classes of students researching the same topics are able to share and build on common links, building a community within a school where students don't get to see each other or interact socially.
 * 9) Assist students in the development of research skills
 * 10) Comment on and describe useful websites

Threats:

 * 1) Some tags may not be appropriate.
 * 2) Sharing personal sites on the internet might not be encouraged.
 * 3) This is a new tool and not familiar - may take a while to get comfortable using it.

=IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM=
 * Create a list of student-safe links that your students can use for a specific research project.
 * Teachers can share links with their students and other teachers.
 * Families can create and share bookmarks to plan trips or to save all the websites that they use to pay bills.
 * Students can share their favorite websites and this saves valuable time when doing a unit, collaborative projects, term papers, etc., retrieve them from any computer and easily site them.
 * Put this on your Shorecrest webpage so that parents and students who visit can link to resources.
 * Create an individual tag for each class and sites and resources they might need through out the year (ex. eng101-lksw)
 * Create a tag specifically for your parents to pass on resources they might be interested in (ex. Mrs.W-parents)
 * Lesson plan for introducing del.icio.us in the classroom
 * Run a feed of your class tagged sites on your class blog or wiki for students to share sites for a project
 * Create tags for students' interests based on student surveys, put student links onto a webpage categorized under interests, and create a school, district, country-wide pen-pal project where students can interact with other students who share their areas of interest.
 * A Linklog to save bookmarks to interesting websites and add commentary. Teachers can complete research and post great sites and offer the students blurbs on each website.
 * This is a [|website]that explains the different ways that you can use this tool in the classroom.

=Examples of Uses in the Classroom=
 * [|Wendy's Biodiversity/Environment Links]
 * [|Anna's Geography Links]
 * [|Chemistry Links]
 * [|Physics Links]
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<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|Del.icio.us Education Tag] This page lists all the recent pages that people have bookmarked using the tag 'education'.

=Experiences:= Pre-service teachers- I used Delicious for a class assignment where we had to find educational sites that we found useful. This idea where you tag your favorite sites could really helpful for pre-service teachers. I have accessed so many sites for lesson plans idea or blogs by teachers that I wish I would have bookmarked them for use later on. It would save alot of time if you one day found a good site for science lesson plans or ideas and than you just access it later on if you need ideas. I have spent hours on class assignments looking for ideas to help me write my lesson plans. Your bookmarks could also save you time for when you first start your teaching job or internship.