Reasons to use Delicious:
- Save all your bookmarks to centralize them into one location and to access them from any computer
- Create a Delicious account for your department or grade level so everyone can share their most useful web sites
- Create a classroom account for your students to have easy access to the web sites they can use for school activities and research
- Create student account and assign students the task to find and then share web sites useful for current class topics
- Require students doing research projects to create Delicious accounts so you can easily keep track of their progress
- Have students subscribe to the RSS feed of your list- the feed URL is http://delicious/RSS/yourusername or subscribe to a specific tag in your list
- Search for good web sites using the search feature in Delicious
- Typing http://delicious/popular/tag will find the resources about your topic saved by the most users
- Work with your students to create meaningful tags-- good for simplifying and for teaching about categorizing and content management
- Use the popular feature to teach web site evaluation
- Join networks of other computer-using educators or of others who share your academic interests or subject content
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