Social Bookmarking

It's time to switch from Faith overcoming fear: our first year of cabin ownership! to Respond to this week's assignment in your blog assignment.

This week we're learning about social bookmarking and in particular using the site Delicious.

Last year was the first year I really started to use a social networking site. The other Tech Teachers that I knew were using Linkagogo. Their lists looked great. It seemed like a logical idea. I just didn't want to do it. I fought adding that piece to my skill set. Finally I bucked the trend and set up a Delicious account, and I haven't looked back. It's a really easy way for me to organize student bookmarks. I can keep teacher bookmarks on the same site. I have the option of publishing them or keeping them hidden which I think is a very valuable option.

I use my Delicious site as the homepage for our computer lab so students always have access to the sites I have previewed and feel are appropriate for their use. I've also added a link to my web page so that parents can access the site. The one thing I haven't done is advertise my list to teachers in my building. I think that will be my next step.

If you haven't opened a Delicious account yet you should. It's a great way to store and organize all of your bookmarks.

Click here to examine my bookmarks