I see social bookmarking as a valuable tool for the modern teacher's resource arsenal. After signing up and exploring delicious.com, and familiarizing myself with the application, I see it as a great way to save and organize that small portion of the internet deemed relevant to you (or me!). Having the ability to bookmark, then organize sites with tags, makes a site list containing hundreds of entries quite manageable (thereby keeping that long list actually useable). The social aspect is also very important, as it allows other, like-minded individuals to create and share bookmarks easily (since everything on delicious.com is public). That means there are lots of people bookmarking and tagging, for instance, good lesson plan websites. The power of numbers at work, it's a beautiful thing.
And how can teachers take advantage? Easy! Just sign up and start looking for relevant tags, and you'll find a slew of related websites, already explored, tagged, and commented on by actual living people! It's like a search engine, only better!
As a side note, I also took a look at StumbleUpon, which is not entirely unlike delicious.com, but different enough (in my mind) to be considered something other than a social bookmarking site. Rather than maintaining control over what you see and where you go, StumbleUpon keeps track of your chosen interests, then takes you to a different content-related website every time you click the "stumble" button. While this can be a fun activity, and may expand your horizons and list of resources, I must conclude by saying that StumbleUpon is better suited to those with some spare time on their hands. For those who want to utilize social bookmarking for fun and profit (not in the financial sense, more like the time-management sense), an app like delicious.com is just what the doctor (or internet librarian) ordered.
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