Thing 14

As mentioned in Thing 13, I have had a delicious account for a while now. And I have used it to gather a ton of resources. Probably too many resources. I think it's kind of a symptom of my position: I can possibly work with every grade level, I end up having to teach every subject area, and I work with students with very unique needs and interests, so I am always packing away things I may need in the future. This happens with actual, physical things, but now with web-based resources, I am collecting them like crazy too! 


So, my delicious account info is: meether369 Please add me to your network, if you feel so led. 


When it comes to social bookmarking in the classroom, I use delicious quite often for lesson planning, but like I said before, it can be frustrating with the tag issues. I am working those out now, though. I also have subscribed to the delicious feeds of other educators whom I respect and they show up in my Google Reader (like Bloglines). That's a really interesting way to use delicious in the classroom--you can get direct references from other teachers, or even whole school districts that have their own social bookmarking networks! 


I would also like to see more of the colleagues in my direct community using delicious so I can link them into my network and we can connect more sources to the content we're teaching. But, at this point, there's no one else from my department/building who has anything up and running! Errr! I look forward to the day when these types of web-based ideas and resources are all common knowledge like calculators or telephones!