Thing 17 Introduction to Delicious

Delicious is a wonderful tool for teachers, for everyone really. It is similar to Pinterest; however, Pinterest is a bit easier to organize with the pinboards feature. Still, when it comes to education, I prefer Delicious because it is much easier to search using tags. I wish I had discovered this site sooner! It is definitely an easy way to create bookmarks and keep up with webpages that interest me. As for potential in the classroom, teachers can use Delicious to do research and refer students to Delicious for research as well. Once I searched “educational technology” I also realized that it gives access to tons of different ideas. Reading the other tags for the webpages is an easy way to see if that is the particular webpage that would benefit me. Users can see how popular the webpage is and read comments regarding it. Ideas, teaching strategies, teaching technology, handouts, worksheets, projects, and much more can be found using Delicious. Once again, this is a great way for teachers to “beg, steal, and borrow” everything they will need in their teaching toolbox. This is definitely a tool I will be using for now on and in the future for teaching.