What is del.icio.us?
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.
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