Thing 13 Tagging and Discover Delicious

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!