Delicious is an online social bookmarking site. Using Delicious, you can put various websites together in an organized manner. This can help so that if you are trying to find information on a topic, you will have multiple websites that are already grouped together for ease.
You can also add people to your network so that you can see all of their bookmarked websites. I could see adding quite a few teachers and creating a network of people who have bookmarked great websites which I can use, or add to my own list of bookmarks. This sharing of information across the world is a great feature of this program.
Another great feature of Delicious is that you can get to your bookmarks from any computer. If I am on my home computer and find great websites that I could use with my students, I don't need to wait until I have my school laptop. I can simply bookmark them on Delicious and I will be able to access them from any computer.
I used it to bookmark websites that would be useful for reading centers for my second grade students. It was very easy to add the bookmarks and to add the titles and tags. My bookmarks are here. Our county has something called a Document Repository in which various websites, activities, lesson plans, etc. are available for teachers to use. While it is a great feature that our county created, sorting through all of the information can take a while. This is why I started to use Delicious. I can bookmark the websites that I find on the Document Repository so that my favorite sites are all together. This will make using the websites easier as I will not have to search for the one I am looking for amongst multiple websites.
To explore the many possiblilities of Delicious, visit this site for 8 tips for better Delicious bookmarking.
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