Thing 15: de.licio.us
Investigating del.icio.us
I have accumulated an innumerable amount of English and teaching related websites and I am always on the look out for more.
It is especially easy to get lost on Google. Typing in the word “Shakespeare” will bring up thousands of websites and it seems daunting to locate the wheat from the chaff; however, you can use del.icio.us to find appropriate websites for easy access and use.
I searched several texts I use in the classroom and discovered many different types of sites. When typing in “Siddhartha,” sites about Herman Hesse’s novel and the historical background of him appeared. The organization of the sites made it easy to find material. Also, the amount of people who save the sites is also of particular interest. It shows the popularity (but maybe not the validity) of the sites.
Setting up an account and getting started is extremely easy. Teachers are not the only ones to benefit from this tool, but students could as well. If students were working on a research paper about a certain topic, the teacher could collect a series of suitable sites and have students use them for their research. The uses are endless.
