Well, I just finished installing the del.icio.us buttons on my computer at home. This is something that I can definitely see myself using in the future. There have definitely been times in the past where I have wished I could somehow get a hold of my “favorites” bookmarks. Something I noticed on my delicious page is that under your link it tells you how many other people have tagged that page. At first I just thought it was funny it said that because I could see that 4 other people in our class tagged the EDTS523 web-page. Then, I began to see the usefulness of that feature. You can view the people who have tagged the same website as you, and those people probably have similar interests and other useful websites. If a math teacher has a particular website tagged, it might interest them to view the people who have also tagged that page and the other websites they use.
I never even knew something like this existed. That is one thing that scares me about learning all of these new “tricks” on-line. Technology has expanded so quickly that things go in and out of “style” so fast. There are millions of things out in ‘cyberspace’ that I have yet to learn (and I’m a fairly tech-savvy person). I could be using a program that I think is great, but there could be other programs out there that are so much better and helpful to students. How do we find these programs? Through conversation…through blogs…chats? It’s almost like a catch 22; in order to become more tech-savvy, you must search the web.
Chinchillaaaaaa 