Among all of these tools we keep discussing is the tool of remembering. Remembering can be hard for us, especially when it comes to the web, and namely websites. How are we supposed to remember complex URLs if we want to access a certain page again, or if we want to share it with someone else? Some of these link locations would be nearly impossible to recall. Is there no tool that can help us remember these links? (Delicious.)
Who are we kidding? This is Web 2.0 we're talking about, here. There's this magic little thing called bookmarking, which makes remembering those web locations you wish to access over and over again incredibly easy both to relocate, yourself, and to share with others. Today, we will look at the website, Delicious.com, and discuss how it can serve us as educators.
Delicious allows you to create an archive of links, to save them for later; tag the links, so that others can find the links you've posted; and add your commentary to them, to tell others and remind yourself what the links are for. Likewise, you can search tags to find other users' posts, and you can view their commentary by clicking on the number of "saves" each link has. We can take advantage of this site by both posting and browsing, to both give and take from the Delicious world!
This tool as a great benefit to educators who are interested in utilizing technology to its fullest potential, for one can continue to expand the list of links, by searching on their own, and searching through others' findings both, to make the expansion twice as fast. This allows educators to compile resources in no time!
Did I mention that this is a great place to create an actual "toolbox"?
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