Social Bookmarking
What is Social Bookmarking?
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Delicious?
It is an odd name but it’s a simple, powerful service that is easy to use. Delicious is one of the major social bookmarking services. There are others but to simplify things we’ll just discuss Delicious.
Unpaid Research Team
While I do think using a service like this will make your life far easier you don’t have to join Delicious to take advantage of one of the major benefits. Think of everyone using the service as a potential resource for you. There might be another teacher busy scouring the web for good sites. Maybe there are 40 or 50 of them.
They become your research team. Let them do the work. Sure you won’t like everything they find but they are likely trimming out a lot of inferior resources. You then have a much smaller pool to search through.
Watch the following video on how to search using tags on Delicious and then give it a shot yourself.
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Concepts and Links
Embed Delicious Links in SchoolSpace
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This technique will automatically update the bookmarks in Schoolspace with your additions to Delicious. You can created different linkrolls based on any tag (keyword) or combination of tags.
