del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store, tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. Since del.icio.us is web-based, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at school, or in a library.
Constructivist Learning Tool: A teacher can bookmark links in a del.icio.us pool as a jumping off point for students. As students begin to research a topic, they can add content to and search the community pool.
In this manner, students are scaffolding their
own knowledge and the teacher is working as a facilitator, instead
of a "sage on the stage". In this way, del.icio.us also
becomes an organic learning tool, evolving with the interests and
needs of the community.
Flickr.icio.us: A teacher can bookmark content
from a Flickr group or podcasts to supplement content in a
del.icio.us pool. This could be particularly useful in a group for
world cultures, media studies, or botany. And vice versa, wherein a
Flickr group could use the del.icio.us knowledge cache to
supplement their group photo pool.
Training Tool: As part of a teacher development
tool a trainer could create a cache of articles, or technology
"how-to" resources, creating tags to categorize training topics to
make them easier for the user to locate information.
Related Resources
+ Yahoo! For Teacher Bookmarks > http://del.icio.us/yahoo.teachers
+ del.icio.us blog > http://blog.del.icio.us/
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