Monday, July 14, 2008

Thing 11 - Del.icio.us

A media specialist friend mentioned the Del.icio.us website to me quite some time ago. I decided I would begin my summer by diving into Del.icio.us. It has been great! So to kick-start my lagging 23 things blog, I thought I would restart with Thing 11. I set up a Del.icio.us website several weeks ago. I have enjoyed having my favorite websites readily available at any computer I use. I've played with tags and find that one or two generally meets my needs. More often than not, I have deleted a tag, rather than adding another. I am anxious to share this site with teachers who might also enjoy the convenience of easy access to online favorites. I also added the minn23 website to my Blogline account to keep track of new tags as they are added., but I am not sure that is working.

Now, as I explore the website futher and read through Thing 11, I better understand the option of sharing tags with others. Though I am not ready to introduce De.licio.us to middle school students for research, I do believe it will be one of the resources that I will check when looking for online resources to support the curriculum. I think I might create a De.licio.us website for the media center to assemble the websites we use at school. In the past, I have tried a variety of ways to organize these sites; none of which have been completely satisfactory. Maybe it would make sense to create my own "minn23" website for the students at our school. I'll look into Pagemaker a bit more, too.

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