Thing 13: Tagging and Discover Delicious

1. See if you can figure out how to share your delicious site with others (students). Since my husband, a fellow student, is also an educator, I'm going to share some of my lesson sites with him.

2. Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. When school ended in May, we had to move all our bookmarks, which were grouped by student topics, from our shared drive to My Documents because the computers will be reimaged over the summer. Come August, I'll move all of them back to the shared drive. With Delicious, this won't be necessary.

Students can also access the bookmarks more easily from home. Accessing them on our school site requires student training and a number of clicks. The ability for a group to contribute to a tagged subject by using a unique tag is a great idea. Share the workload, and make the search part of a group assignment rather than just handing the list to students on a shared drive.

Finally, I've decided to open all the bookmarks on my computer and evaluate whether I still need them, and if so, I'll tag and store them on Delicious. Two problems I've had with my bookmarks--I forget I have them, and when I do remember the site I need is there, I often don't remember and have to search the hard way.

Funny, I remember in the early days of my dial-up, dot-matrix, digital life writing down Web sites in a tabbed address book in order to save them. We've come a long way!