I visited and then joined the Delicious site after viewing the short video by Common Craft and viewing other teachers' use of it. Until this past summer, I had never even heard of it! Gosh, that made me feel out of it when I realized that it has been around for 10 years!!
Of course I think it would be a very useful way to access and organize my bookmarks so that I can access them anywhere. That is a real plus. However, now I also know that there is a whole other dimension since it is a "social bookmarking" site.
I can see this as a real asset to team planning at school if teammates and librarians and content specialists connect through this site. As one teacher collects great websites and links of certain concepts, others can see how she tagged it and tag it themselves. Plus, these tags allow teachers to add to their own site so that everyone is building up their collection of useful and relevant sites and links. Since it is public, everyone can help each other and all benefit. Classroom teachers and librarians will find to be a very effective and efficient way to organize information and thus streamline planning. Additionally, for a librarian, it would be so wonderful to be able to share and receive great library ideas from other librarians. Sometimes, the librarian can feel isolated, being the only one on a campus.
Livebinder is also amazing and a way to share all kinds of media on a given topic. I like the way it has tabs and you can see everything at once through them. I am sure that once I become a librarian, I will use this so much so that I can organize information for all grade levels and content areas. I will certainly need it!!!
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