This website is very interesting. I love anything that has the word "social" in it, so I knew I was going to like this activity. I have heard about del.icio.us before, but I never knew what it was all about. As I was going through the discovery resources, I discovered that I already have a StumbleUpon account. I made it in high school because one of my friends introduced me to it. I used to play around on it all the time when I was bored. You can tell the site what your interests are and it will pick websites that fit you. When you get to a site you don't like, just hit the thumbs down and it will stay away from websites like that. You can "like" the site and it will be saved to your favorites, just like a bookmark.
I created my own del.icio.us webpage: KBearden3. It doesn't have much on it right now because I just started looking for websites, but it does have my two favorite online stores. I loooove to "window shop" on the internet by putting things in my wishlist and waiting a couple of weeks to see if I still am interested in the item. However, after those two weeks, I sometimes forget which sites I have wishlists on. With del.icio.us, I can just bookmark those sites under wishlist, and all of them will pop up! This will definitely save me some time searching the internet!
There are many many ways del.icio.us could be used in the classroom. For an assignment, a teacher may want students to research the Civil War. Well, the teacher could eliminate the use of poor sources by tagging credible websites and grouping them under "Civil War". This would save the teacher and students time because the students would know exactly what websites they could and couldn't use, and the teacher would not have to check every source to see if it is credible.
I will definitely continue to use del.icio.us. It is truly DELICIOUS!
KBearden:]
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