Module 7

Social book marking is a new and interesting concept that I was not previously aware of. I spent some time exploring Delicious and also searching the web and adding bookmarks to my account.

The main benefit of this tool is that you are able to bookmark websites and access these bookmarks at any computer, as they are saved online. I often save websites on my computer at home and then have to look for them again if I want to save them as favourites on my school computer. This application makes the process much simpler.

One way that Delicious can be used in the classroom is by adding the children as followers to your delicious account. They are then be able to access sites that you have already researched. This would cut down on research time in class and also allow you to monitor the web sites that the children use for research.

Delicious keeps your book marks ordered and easily accessible. Tags, key words that you add to bookmarks, allow you to easily search for bookmarks rather than scroll through an entire list as with the favourites application.

You are also able to search others Delicious accounts, which is why this it is referred to as social book marking. This process allows you to reap the benefits of others research cutting down search time. This allows teachers to share resources, creating an online teaching and learning community. You are also able to create private bookmarks, which as the name suggests, are not able to be viewed by the general public.

Although I found Delicious to be a useful tool, I would be more inclined to create a property on myclasses with the bookmarks as hyperlinks rather than use Delicious, as I do not have time to add all of my students as followers. While I may not use this resource, I am pleased to have learnt about its existence.