Thing #17 Delicious

For other activities I did in this blog, although most were completely new to me, I had at least heard of flickr and RSS feeds but I've never heard of Delicious before.  After watching the Delicious tutorial I realized that the tagging of photos I was used to from Facebook was a bit different from Delicious where I'd be tagging websites with a word or phrase.

Setting up an account with Delicious was very easy and before I knew it Delicious was added to my toolbar!  After typing in educational technology in the search bar I was flooded with results.

The two most popular sites were articles about using Facebook in the classroom and about iPads and iPod touches as resources for students, both having over a 1,000 bookmarks.  The comments I read for both articles seemed to all be very positive.

my results in Delicious!

I struggle with finding an actual benefit that Delicious would have in my future classroom because I see it more as a sight for personal use. Maybe for younger kids it may be a cool tool for them to conduct research but since I am going to be a secondary English teacher I plan to have my students use or begin to use an article database site such as JStor.