I am constantly amazed at the number of tools that are evolving in 2.o. I had never even heard of Delicious before! An interesting tool. I think it definitely has some possible uses with students in terms of creating a shared site that they can use to access websites that have been selected and saved for research. I am already able to do this on our library portal page, but this might be a nice extension. I especially like the ability to tag sites and search for similar sites. It creates an online community of shared resources that are easy to access. I will share this tool with some of the teachers at my school who like to provide websites to parents for use at home with students. This would make it easy to put everything in one place and the ability to annotate makes it even more useful.
I was able to use the tags to explore 'information literacy' and found an interesting blog entry from Joyce Valenza about being a 21st century librarian. You can find it on my Delicious bookmarks if you're interested.
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I think social bookmarking is a wonderful tool for collaborative work and for group projects. Tagging is a bit of an art (it's easy to have lots of tags with just one link) but it's also a good way to get students thinking about how they can organize the information they've found into larger chunks, moving from "small picture" to "big picture." Have fun developing and sharing your bookmark collection!
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