Thing #13 (Corrected)

I have been using my Delicious account for about a year and a half now. It seemed very overwhelming when I first learned about it with all the tags, etc. But then I realized that tags were just descriptors. I didn't know previously about clicking on the magic blue box to find other people - pretty fun! I really like the feature of being able to share articles with others (and others sharing with me). We do this in our department occasionally and it really comes in handy. I would love to be able to help teachers on my campuses set up Delicious accounts and share articles with them as well as show them how to share articles with each other. If students also had Delicious accounts, then teachers could share articles/websites with them and they could also share with each other. There are, of course, issues that come about when we have students sign up for accounts like that and we are unable to monitor them. Parents would have to be made aware so they could monitor those.

I have started using Delicious more often since I found an application called Stumble Upon in which you choose topics of interest and hit the Stumble Upon button and it randomly brings up websites in those categories. Sometimes they are really awesome and I want to save them. I was bookmarking them at first and now have an absurdly horrible bookmark list (which is why I don't want to export those, yet - need to get them organized). Then I started using Delicious for the ones I desperately wanted to keep. It is a really great way to keep me organized!