After joining Delicious and searching for the tag educational technology the amount of websites was amazing and the organization by tags definitely makes it so much easier to look for websites that would be helpful. I also searched for a couple other tags like cooking and photography. Being able to see the additional tags and comments people have made on particular sites helps to narrow down what I was looking for specifically. On a couple of the educational sites I think it would have been good of the people who posted them to put that the services cost money. As future teachers we will only get a small budget for resources for our students and everything else must come out of our own pockets so we will have to be careful of how much we spend and what we spend it on. Or we could end up in the poor house.
I can definitely see the potential use for this in the classroom, being able to set up tags that correspond to specific lessons or classes would be a great way to keep the websites that I want to use in class handy for when I need them. The ability to access the bookmarks from any computer would definitely be the most important since I won't be carrying my home desktop with me to school everyday.
Teachers can take advantage of socially bookmarking sites by letting their co-teachers know that they are involved in this site and what kinds of tags they use. It could make for a way to collaborate and know that students no matter who's classroom they are in are getting the same amount of technology. For teachers who aren't as technologically savvy and unaware of how to find good websites being able to go to a social bookmarking site would help them narrow down their choices and find what would work best for them in a classroom setting.
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