#17 Delicious

A couple of teachers at school use Delicious and sing its praises but this is the first time I have had a look at it myself and I am quite excited by it too.  Delicious, like a lot of the Web 2.0 resources, becomes more useful the more it is used so I am going to get into it, invite others to do the same and see what we can end up with. I love the idea of sharing the information and uncovered gems around favourite topics,, allowing us to "work smarter not harder". The social aspects of so many of these Web 2.0 tools is remarkable and provide food for thought for those who decry the Internet as a threat to  social structures.
As a teacher-librarian who appreciates the importance of appropriate and thorough cataloguing processes, the tagging component is a most important and effective way of location and selection.
I think it would be very appropriate to  introduce  upper primary students to the process of building and sharing  their website catalogue in Delicious. The very process encompasses so many information literacy elements and skills and would give them a  method of organising, sharing  discerning the best of  their online explorations