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