A Delicious Reflection

Delicious is a great social book marking tool that I found very useful. I found that Delicious was very easy to use. I really liked the fact that I can now have access to my bookmarks from any computer. There were so many times in the past that I would bookmark things at home and not have access to them at home or book mark them at school and not have access to those sites at home. Using delicious has eliminated that problem. Over the course of this class my list of book marks has grown. I find myself refereeing back to delicious when I am looking for specific information. I especially like the use of the tags as a means to search for items.

Looking at Others' Links:

After visiting the tags that we saved within our class I was pleasantly surprised at how many websites I found useful for my own teaching. I ended up saving a bunch of the websites on my own list from other peoples lists. I fond and followed Misty from the class, as it seems as if we have some things in common such as poetry. I found many useful poetry sites from following her in my network.

Choosing Tags:

My list of tags that I have and continue to use has grown immensely. At first I was a little hesitant of using tags and kind of over thought the process of using tags. When adding tags I always found myself tagging and then re-tagging thinking that the first tag was not a good tag. As I got use to using delicious I came to the realization that tags do not have to be perfect. I also found myself looking at others tags in my network to get ideas of how to tag certain websites. When first tagging items I always used the tags that we were suppose to use for this class web2.0 and uwwlibmedia.

Annotations:

I like the annotations that you can add to each tag. I think this is a good feature to use if you want to specifically remember what you originally tagged each page for. There are many times when I tag a website and then can not remember what I tagged it for the. The annotations can eliminate this problem. I am getting use to using the annotations and trying not to forget to add them to a page that I bookmark.

Tag Clouds:

I have to admit that I was not very familiar with tag clouds until I found them after reading the directions for this post. It is very interesting to look at your tag cloud to see what tags were used more often. Looking at the tag clouds is a great visual representations of what you have been tagging. Some of the tags that I used often besides the ones that we needed to use for the class were: podcasting, literature, and poetry.

Connecting With Others:

Delicous is a great way to connect with others who have similar interests. It is a great way to share information with others who may be researching or interested in the same thing that you are. Delicous would be a great classroom tool for students to use when they are all researching similar topics. They would be able to see and use what others have found on the topic. I kind of think of Delicious of a way for students to Brainstorm a list of resources and put them together for everyone to use. It would also be beneficial to sort of jump start students on a project. Perhaps they were going to be researching Frogs. As a teacher you could bookmark a few pages in Delicious to get the students started and then have them add their own bookmarks. By the end of class students could easily see how the list of resources has grown. You could also visit the tag cloud and see what key words or tags students used.

As I starting using Delicous, I found a person by the name of Heather Mayernik who has very similar interests and tags. I also found a lot of useful information that I then bookmarked on my delicious page. I think that by using delicious as a resource your resources only grow and become better. Delicous is also a great tool to use if you are having trouble finding information on a certain topic. You could easily look and see what others have found on that same topic.

I love using Delicous and have continued to use it throughout the class as well as for my own personal use. It is so easy to access the things that you have bookmarked from any computer. I enjoyed using this tool and am looking forward to adding it into my classroom next year!