Honestly, at first I wasn't very excited about the idea of delicious. However, after I played around with it more, I can definitely see some of the benefits of using this site. People spend so much time "surfing" the Internet, but it's never really known if a site is good or not. Even more time-consuming is figuring out exactly what to put in that magical search box. Although I think that Google does a great job at "reading my mind," it's still an imperfect process. Delicious helps by expanding your search into relating fields that have some tie-in to what you're looking for. For example, on Google I searched for "high school library." What I found was literal information about high school libraries. In delicious with the same search, I found more links to websites that are helpful or applicable to the high school library setting. I thought this was great!
I think delicious can be really helpful for students because they could use this site to share websites they like with their fellow classmates (this is also applicable for librarians and teachers alike). They could also use it when initially brainstorming for a research topic in order to broaden their ideas or consider related topics that they had not previously thought about. Teachers and librarians can use delicious to share what they've found with each other and to simply keep all of their favorite websites organized and in one location. Additionally, they can read other people's comments about certain sites, getting a second opinion, which is always extremely useful.
Overall, I think delicious is a beneficial, time-saving tool to be used in and out of the classroom!
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