delicious





About Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking web 2.0 tool which allows users to sign up for an account and store links to useful websites on a global database. As traditional bookmarking relied on the user saving website addresses on a single computer, allowing only for viewing on the one computer. With delicious the user can save their websites in their account which can be viewed on multiple computers with internet access. Delicious additionally incorporates the use of ‘tag clouds’ and grouping of similar bookmark themes which is makes it easy for the user to select particular categories or themes of bookmarks. Furthermore, users can collaboratively share bookmarks online with other users to build a large resource of useful bookmarks.

Education Implementation
Delicious is a great resource for educational use as it can allow for both students and teachers to seek advantages from using this web 2.0 tool. Teachers can collect, collaborate and share websites amongst teachers within their school, and across multiple schools. A teacher’s web resources can be stored in one easy to access place. For students the possibilities of use can range from collaborating with other students, through to collecting web resources for assignments.

Advantages:
Online web tool which requires no software installation Can be used anywhere with internet access Stimulates sharing of resources Suitable for primary and secondary students Easy to use Great tag cloud feature Similar grouping of themes It's free to use

Disadvantages:
Need to subscribe to Yahoo and Delicious for an account Requires Internet Access Could be blocked to students in some schools due to collaborative nature of social bookmarking

Summary of Delicious
Delicious is a great online tool for educational use as it can facilitate collaborative learning amongst students, teachers and the world. The tool receives a four out of five for functionality and ease of use.

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What is Social Bookmarking?
This short instructional video demonstrates what social bookmarking involves...

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