Thing 14

My Delicious username is smartinlp.

I chose to spend some time looking for websites containing lessons on the library and information literacy. I found it to be extremely beneficial to see how many other people have bookmarked sites that appeared with my tag search as it gave me a good idea as to how valuable others think the site is.

Social bookmarking ranks up there as one of the best resources I have learned thus far in 23 Things. Although I value all the things I have learned so far, I think social bookmarking will be an invaluable tool for me professionally. I agree with one of the demonstration videos which stated the sites on Delicious have already been previewed and deemed valuable by others which can save one a lot of time from searching solely on Google or another search engine. I plan on using Delicious to look for resources that support my understanding in the subject I teach as well as lesson ideas and lesson resources. I teach elementary so I don't know how I would teach the use of social bookmarking or direct students to a list of links in my Delicious account, perhaps I can do that with 4th and 5th grade for research resources. Currently I have a "pathfinders" link on my school website on grade level research projects, but Delicious is so much easier to use. I feel Delicious and social bookmarking sites will definitely increase my productivity by making it easy to locate pre-screened sites, all from one location, and accessible from any computer. I'm really excited about re-organizing all the sites saved in my Favorites from different computers and put them all into one easy to use Delicious account.