Delicious

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Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows people list the sites they use. Once they have added them they are allowed to view others with similar websites.

Honestly I'm not sure about using Delicious in my classroom. I see that it can help organize websites for students to use. I even went as far as to find things for my daughter to play on the internet. It also allows for people to use each others favorite websites, and this was how I was able to pick and choose a large amount of what is included above. My issues is why not simply put bookmarks on an internet browser? Why should students have to go through the trouble of logging into a website?

If each student created their own delicious account and then posted information into the account and networked I could see where it would become handy. I just do not personally see myself using this in the classroom in the future.

NETS-S standards are like the others. It forces students to do research (Standard 3 for students). It also makes them work collaboratively as Delicious is a social network (Standard 2). I think my issue is that this does not force them to be creative. They simply click a few buttons and add websites. When I'm using technology in my classroom I want my students to be thinking and creating things as creative as they can.