Bookmarking Before It Was Social...
I'm not a stranger to delicious.com, perhaps more of a long-lost friend. Several years ago, during my elementary internship, my site coordinator was very fond of delicious, and encouraged us all to use it for bookmarking lesson plan sites and other resources. I, being the techno-curious, tried it out. Back then, there was no social aspect of delicious.com. you simply added your sites and the showed on your main page in list form. Convenient. I used it a few times, but like other websites, got bored, lost my user info, and forgot about it.
I have to say I like the updated version of delicious much more than its ancestor. It reminds me of pintrest.com, a site I am completely addicted to. The ability to bookmark (or pin) anything and have it be available wherever and whenever is great. I have added a 'save it on delicious' button (and a pin it button for pintrest!) on both my personal computers and my work computer. The mobility of sites like these makes life so much easier. I can't name the number of times I have wanted a site that was saved in my favorites folder, and been unable to find it on my own. Delicious.com makes that problem disappear.
A site like delicious.com would be usable in any classroom. Teachers could design a stack for age appropriate websites, a stack for parent resources, a stack for district/school information, or even a stack to collaborate resources with other teachers and administrators. With the sharing option, these stacks could be accessible to anyone with the click of a mouse.
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