Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Thing 19

My Del.icio.us link is: http://del.icio.us/stackandrews
I use to highlight copy and paste into word the Urls of the sites I would find that I enjoyed or used in my classroom. I also subscribed to educational emails that would send links to educational sites. I would pick the ones I enjoyed the most copy and paste into a word document to create a handout of useful sites. I would pass them out to my co-workers. I will upload one example in google docs.
This would be a new way to tag favorite sites for my co-workers to see. Also could use it with students for a reference list to a webquest or research assignment.
I am having difficulty getting access to del.icio.us downloaded onto my computer at work. For me this might only be a service on could create at home.
I really like my keepandshare bookmarking site. I use it more for my personal resource but you can make it public. There are no tags and it is really easy to use. I did find some new sites on del.icio.us that were interesting so I will continue to use this site however I did bookmark my sites from del.icio.us onto my keep and share site.
This would be great to book mark a number of sites you might want to show your students during a class period. Easy way to reference them quickly.
I thing one can get lost or overwhelmed using too many sites like keep and share, trailfire and del.icio.us. I plan on doing more this summer to see what I like best.

2 comments:

dcmst scienceteacher said...

I also am having difficulty accessing my del.icio.us account from school. This is very frustrating. I am planning on contacting our webmaster to find out if there is a specific reason for this problem.

RESA 23Things said...

Yes, some schools do filter out this site.

Interestingly, del.icio.us was named as the top educational technology tool by an UK organization (http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html)