It's Delightful; It's Delicious

Del.icio.us is a tool to help bookmark sites in one area to make it simple for storing bookmarked websites online.  It's really nice that teachers can give each of their students their own account since all of the accounts are free.  I think this would be a really good tool so that you can see what sites the students are interested in and keep them really organized.  For younger students I can see where adding unique tags to each of the bookmarks would help them remember exactly what is on the site.  Sometimes long web addresses can get confusing and have a helpful word instead would be much more useful.  It's also great that you can store everything for a research project together and separate from everything else so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle when using search engines and things.  The cloud which is one way to use tags puts them all together and highlights sites with links and blogs.  This is also helpful for projects and group activities, they know exactly where to look for a blog for instance that they can use for a resource in a research paper.  Overall I think that being able to bookmark sites is a fantastic way for teachers to show their students how to develop and maintain organization skills for each project that they do.  It's also important to monitor what your students are researching and make sure that the information they are receiving is true and from a legitimate source.
Johnson, Doug. (2007). It's delightful; it's delicious. Educationworld. Retrieved September 27, 2010, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson017.shtml

Article A number 2

Integrating Technology into the classroom is probably one of the most important and easiest things a teacher can do.  I have never had a teacher who didn't use some sort of technology in the classroom, whether it is interactive sites or creating a newspaper/yearbook.  Of the twenty easy ways to integrate technology there are a few that stood out as extremely important.  Number 8 Make History Real is a great way of getting kids interested in a subject that can sometimes be considered boring.  Another interesting idea is number 13 Incorporate Online New Resources, this is something one of my teachers used in junior high and I still remember some of the interesting thing we discussed that I would have never known about.  One thing that is not on the list but that I think is a great way to keep everyone active is to have a class blog.  This is something I did in high school and it really kept everyone involved and was even pretty funny at times.  Students need technology that is active and useful in their lives outside of class.  I wouldn't say that I am an extremely tech savvy person but I do enjoy my social networking and even doing PowerPoint's for class. When I am a teacher I want to make some of the day to day things fun and interesting and the best way to do that is through the use of technology. Taking computer classes throughout highschool and college has really helped me to keep up on what is going on in the world of technology.