The potential of this tool for research assistance is strong for real-life problems—like when my husband needs to find a little programming fix—he can go to Delicious or other bookmarking sites and use search terms that were likely to be used as tags. He has had a lot of success doing that. For kids’ assignments, it could be a great help—like an expandable and changeable “hot list” of great sites preselected by teachers or librarians to help guide kids to strong sites for research. It would be easy for a group of educators to bookmark new sites each time they ran across a good one—it would expand and change and build as time passed and people continued to work on it
As a permanent, searchable, safe place for me to store my bookmarks or cool sites that I might forget—it is AWESOME and I love it. Using a bookmarking site, I can always find those great sites no matter where I am or no matter whose computer I am using—that’s a great help when I am helping teachers! It is will also be very helpful for me this year when I am a traveling librarian at two campuses!
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This would definitely be helpful for you at two campuses!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Delicious is a "keeper" when you're trying to locate your favorite sites on your home computer or your school computer. And heaven forbid, if your hard drive ever crashes, you'll still have all your favorite bookmarked sites saved on the web.
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