I am excited about delicious as a social bookmarking tool. It takes the sting out of having the laptops reimaged. Looking for a topic that others have searched and found sites worth bookmarking takes the reinvention of the wheel out of a search. This will save a lot of time in creating information worth seeking for students.
In my classes, the students can use the site and complete their own search that shows sites worth investing time in. I am thinking for my density projects (which will be this week) that students will complete delicious searches for their own websites. I think this would be a great way to introduce the site as well as offer autonomy to gather the information that are responsible for. Just playing with the site, I was able to find information about how density relates to the Titanic. I teach this concept as well as offer it as a possible project surrounding essential questions. I can also bookmark sites I found for those struggling, although I am interested in students completing their own to determine relevance they invested.
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Let us know how the student Delicious accounts work with the density project. I bet 8th graders are capable of searching, bookmarking, and tagging.
ReplyDeleteHaving them think of several tags to help them re-find their bookmark when they search their account by tag is a great way to reinforce the importance of good keywords in searches.