Delicious- Educational Uses

Delicious is a great teacher tool. The Web offers such a wealth of information- both good and bad. It takes time to sort through all the bad to find a site worth saving. For teachers who teach multiple grade levels and subjects, Delicious helps keep you organized and makes saving bookmarks simple. It is also easy to share with others who have accounts. Think about sharing sites school-wide, county-wide, etc.!

While I think there are many reasons to use Delicious as a teacher, it would be harder to use Delicious with students. Depending on age, you could create a link to your Delicious bookmarks and direct them to websites under the appropriate tag, say “Grade 10 Geometry”. For elementary, I think the site is a little overwhelming for my students to go to.

For now, I use Delicious to save sites that are great for my students (and myself!) and then I add them to our school website as well as to my website that lists all the educational websites my students have used so that they can explore them again during reward time.

I tried using ikeepbookmarks, which is more kid friendly in appearance, but the site has so many glitches that adding a bookmark was a slow process and when students tried to access my bookmarks the site ran really slow or not at all. There is a version you can pay for but I didn’t feel it was worth it.

Check out other social bookmarking sites such as Magnolia and Furl.