Del.icio.us has quickly become a fan favorite with some of librarians. Many of our teachers have been creating hotlists of websites for standards based research projects. California missions, endangered animals, and colonial economics, to name a few.
We found that it was easy to create del.icio.us accounts for each of the subject areas. We simply log into the account when we're working on the standard and update the links. Tagging is awesome because it quickly narrows the number of links for the student. This is helpful if the teacher is focusing on providing accurate information for each student.
To help differentiate for each school and make sure the del.icio.us account name is available we use the abbreviation of the school in front of the subject area, e.g., http://del.icio.us/bvesciencefair will take the learner to Burton Valley Elementary's science fair website selections. Http://del.icio.us/bvemissions will take a Burton Valley fourth grader to teacher selected websites about California missions.
A next step for me is to put these lists into Rollyo search bars. Then I can really make this an efficient process.
It all depends on what you want to accomplish.
Out!
1 comment:
I've long (ok, maybe a few months) been a personal fan of del.icio.us but hadn't thought to collaboratively use it in the way you describe. Very cool! But, I urge you to use the google roll your own search application rather than rollyo, so as to be able to eliminate the ads, etc.
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