Sunday, April 6, 2008

Thing 11

This looks like a great organizational tool that has many applications in social, work, and/or academic areas. The tutorial explained well how it can be used in professional and academic settings. The freedom to assign your own tags or labels gives the user the ability to store and retrieve data according to their own categorizing (or that of another). It would certainly help cut down on what can soon get to be an unwieldy list of bookmarks that don't always make logical sense or order.

Working in a K-4 media center, my first inclination is to use this to build reading lists by topic, interest, reading level, etc., and share with colleagues.

I viewed the Menasha (Wis.) Public Library's delicious and clicked on "birds" which revealed related tags/subtopics. This tool has the potential to focus web searches rather quickly as well as provide another good venue for sharing information.

1 comment:

Cindy said...

I agree, I also think it has a lot of appeal to younger students because their approach to information is so different than ours!

Cindy Gruwell
23 Things CMLE Coach