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 ﻿ This is a link to my delicious social bookmarking site! Enjoy the educational links!

__**Why I chose delicious and how do I see this enhancing my teaching:**__


I plan on using delicious to compile important websites that are of interest to me. I have compiled delicious into a few important tags. Most important to me as an English teacher are reading strategies, writing strategies, book suggestions and grammar. I am enjoying using delicious as my social bookmarking site because the site allows me to search for topics of interest without using a search engine, such as google or bing. In addition, the website let's me know which websites have gained increased attention and have multiple followers. As a beginner teacher, it is interesting to see what others' have found useful and exciting in the education profession. Currently, I tutor quite a few teenagers and have to develop weekly lesson plans. I am always online searching for information, lesson ideas, comprehension strategies and graphic organizers. With this said, I plan to use delicious to save myself the time and energy of searching for multiple websites. Delicious will allow me to have all of my websites in one place and neatly organized into tags or categories.

I chose to use delicious after having some difficulty setting up stumbleupon. I was originally attracted to stumbleupon because I liked the idea that the bookmarking site would suggest websites that are of interest to me. I thought this would be a great way to explore webpages that I might not have accessed before. In addition, by hitting the stumble button, I would be linked to a chain of websites that I could click and explore. After a few minutes of using the social bookmarking site, I began having trouble setting up tags and organizing my bookmarks. Although the site had many benefits, it did not visibly display my tags, which were an organizational benefit to me and I decided to look into the bookmarking site, delicious. My professor explained that she uses delicious in her school and the website is not blocked; with this said, I feel optimistic that I will be able to use the website when I begin my teaching career. I can use delicious to contribute new and exciting information to my colleagues and gain knowledge from experts in the field. Delicious can help enhance my teaching in numerous ways. First, it is a great way to collaborate with other professionals and learn from others. I can follow people I know or don't know, who have similar interests as myself; this will help broaden my knowledge base. Second, it makes sharing links with colleagues very easy because the links are in a public forum, instead of having to email individual links to an array of teachers. In addition, delicious allows individuals to write about each link/website as well, making it easier to remember what the site is about/ what the site offers (similar to a digital sticky note). Another way social bookmarking can enhance teaching is by creating one central location for information. Teachers often use numerous different computers; there own personal computer, their class computer, a library computer etc. Instead of having different bookmarks on multiple computers, delicious allows teachers to never miss a website because they are all centralized. Lastly, if social bookmarking is not blocked in schools, they are a great tool to have students use. For project based learning assignments, groups can compile useful links and can share links with their team members. In addition, teachers can compile websites on a social bookmarking sites for students to access during multiple units throughout the year.