Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service. One of the benefits this resource offers is that you can save all your bookmarks online through simple tags, but also the possibility to share your saved links with other people, and see bookmarkings from other people as well. In this way, users can see the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, search and tagging tools that Delicious provides will help you follow your whole bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks other people have selected.
Folders are the ordinary way to organize bookmarks, which is useful if you have few bookmarks and a few folders, but if you have a large collection, it becomes harder and harder to decide what goes where and how to find them easily. Delicious makes it easier through tags.
Tags are simply words you may use to label a bookmark. You can create and use as many tags as you like to have a better organization of your bookmarks. Thus, the search for links you have saved are easier to find. Other benefit of using delicious is that tags combine among them. This means, for example, that all of the bookmarks you tag under the labels funny and video will automatically be placed in the "funny" collection and the "video" collection. Since tags work the same way for everyone, you can also check out other people's "funny" or "video" bookmarks. You can even combine tags to see bookmarks with funny and video.
Since your bookmarks are stored online, you can get to them from any computer,at any place.
It also allows you to find interesting things on the Web that other people have saved as their bookmarks. YOU CANNOT HAVE A ONE SENTENCE PARAGRAPH GOOD * I've made some changes, check, please.
Teaching and learning possibilities and examples of use
Delicious can help students to organize their work:
· Delicious is an useful tool to track down all the interesting Web pages you find. · Delicious keeps all your bookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of your bookmarks again. · Delicious allows you to explore what is on demand for any particular topic by checking out the most popular bookmarks for any tag. Check the grammar at the beginnig of this sentence/ (corrected) · Delicious provides a quick search avoiding long scrolling list of bookmarks.Rephrase this idea(corrected)
Can you be more specific as to how the resource may be applied in the classoom?
· It allows teachers to create a matrix which can be used in different ways. For example, the teacher may organize the syllabus units by including in each one selected keywords which are going to be used during the course. These keywords can be used as tags for bookmarks. · The large scale of delicious is what makes this interesting. Students could easily find more links bookmarked for a given topic, facilitating further reading which might be relevant to their course. · It would be easy to manage required and recommended reading for a course by adding tags to that effect. And they could also see what all delicious users had bookmarked for a given tag. · Students may share research by tagging links in delicious using keywords. · Delicious provides students with experience of social software, and it also allows them to experiment with using it to direct social change.
Good, here you enumerate some useful applications!
Follow these links to find additional resources http://delicious.com/ ( The Delicious Home page shows you the hottest bookmarks on Delicious right now.)
Delicious
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Main characteristics
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service. One of the benefits this resource offers is that you can save all your bookmarks online through simple tags, but also the possibility to share your saved links with other people, and see bookmarkings from other people as well. In this way, users can see the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, search and tagging tools that Delicious provides will help you follow your whole bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks other people have selected.
Folders are the ordinary way to organize bookmarks, which is useful if you have few bookmarks and a few folders, but if you have a large collection, it becomes harder and harder to decide what goes where and how to find them easily. Delicious makes it easier through tags.
Tags are simply words you may use to label a bookmark. You can create and use as many tags as you like to have a better organization of your bookmarks. Thus, the search for links you have saved are easier to find. Other benefit of using delicious is that tags combine among them. This means, for example, that all of the bookmarks you tag under the labels funny and video will automatically be placed in the "funny" collection and the "video" collection. Since tags work the same way for everyone, you can also check out other people's "funny" or "video" bookmarks. You can even combine tags to see bookmarks with funny and video.
Since your bookmarks are stored online, you can get to them from any computer,at any place.
It also allows you to find interesting things on the Web that other people have saved as their bookmarks. YOU CANNOT HAVE A ONE SENTENCE PARAGRAPH
GOOD
* I've made some changes, check, please.
Teaching and learning possibilities and examples of use
Delicious can help students to organize their work:
· Delicious is an useful tool to track down all the interesting Web pages you find.
· Delicious keeps all your bookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of your bookmarks again.
· Delicious allows you to explore what is on demand for any particular topic by checking out the most popular bookmarks for any tag. Check the grammar at the beginnig of this sentence/ (corrected)
· Delicious provides a quick search avoiding long scrolling list of bookmarks. Rephrase this idea (corrected)
Can you be more specific as to how the resource may be applied in the classoom?
· It allows teachers to create a matrix which can be used in different ways. For example, the teacher may organize the syllabus units by including in each one selected keywords which are going to be used during the course. These keywords can be used as tags for bookmarks.
· The large scale of delicious is what makes this interesting. Students could easily find more links bookmarked for a given topic, facilitating further reading which might be relevant to their course.
· It would be easy to manage required and recommended reading for a course by adding tags to that effect. And they could also see what all delicious users had bookmarked for a given tag.
· Students may share research by tagging links in delicious using keywords.
· Delicious provides students with experience of social software, and it also allows them to experiment with using it to direct social change.
Good, here you enumerate some useful applications!
Follow these links to find additional resources
http://delicious.com/ ( The Delicious Home page shows you the hottest bookmarks on Delicious right now.)
http://www.slideshare.net/ggrosseck/using-delicious-in-education
Delicious as a digital resource aggregator: http://delicious.com/dpeter19
http://blog.ulisesmejias.com/2005/12/28/teaching-social-software-with-social-software-a-report/
Author: María de los Ángeles Gianotti
Editor: Mariano Zanetti