It's actually a social bookmarking tool!!
I have to be honest, I had never heard of delicious prior to beginning this module. I'm going to be honest and say that I am actually going to sit on the fence on this one. I'm not so sure whether I am a fan or not of this tool.
On the plus side, I like the ability to be able to bookmark favourite sites that I am able to access from any computer I am working on. Some sites I am able to remember because they are often used or have easy names to remember. Others I google based on a partial recall and scroll through the results with mixed success. Now there is delicious - this is a real energy saver - not needing to have them recorded or logged elsewhere. I can really see the benefit of being able to organise my favourite sites/links in one location - rather than on my home mac, my macbook and my computer at work.
As I sit on the fence, I'm thinking the wheel is round ... why reinvent the wheel. If I am able to access high quality resources that are tried and tested by other teachers this is a real plus. To be a reliable and responsible user, I have to tag quality resources that I have tried and tested myself. Further, the tag needs to be explicit so someone else can find it easily. Those that I think are just worth a second look should probably be bookmarked using my previous approach - reserved for a later look rather than tagging straight away. If I am able to share my own resources with other teachers then this has to be a plus too.
I'm thinking this would be a great resource to take on board as a staff. I can really see the benefits that a tool like this would have within our school learning community, particularly when teachers move between grades.
On the down side, using Delicious means that it is another site I have to log into rather than heading straight to my bookmarks menu (which is a really great feature I love about my mac). It would mean that I could access these from other locations (so a plus). I'm not so sure that using bookmarks of others would be something I would really get into in a big way. What is good for me, may not be good for a colleague and vice versa.
This is a tool that I think I have to give a bit more energy to exploring.
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