Delicious Reflection

Being able to continually add relevant bookmarks to my Delicious account has helped me to broaden my website base for this course and to use as a teacher in general. Some websites I would like to save to my own account from other teachers in our course are "A to Z Teacher Stuff For Teachers" and "The Innovative Educator: 100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark".

My own list of tags has grown because after I visited a website and used it, I was able to add more descriptive words or tags to my account. I am pretty consistent in using about 3-5 tags in my bookmark links. I generally use words like art, educator, teacher, collaborate and network. I usually did not change my mind once I had chosen a word to describe a tag. I was influenced by what other students used as descriptive terms for their tags. Sometimes I used synonyms like teacher for educator and collaborate for sharing.

I would teach tagging to my students by having them use a website and then think of about five words to describe that site and provide links to our class/school website also. I did not bundle tags together but I could do this for example if I had words like "draw" and "paint". These could be grouped as "art". The tags I have used the most often are art and educator. I did not add annotations to my tags, but by doing this it would make my link information more descriptive. I could use Delicious to connect with others in class by visiting a website that they've searched and then email them and discuss points of interest. I found Patricia Schaefer used many of the same tags I did. I would use the network feature of Delicious with someone outside of this class by visiting a certain bookmarked website and then go in and post a comment along with other visitors to that site, if possible.

I could use a bookmarking product like this in my art classes so students could pool their art-related websites to use as a resource for the entire class. I am convinced that the Edgerton School District would use a bookmarking device like Delicious. Especially for middle and high school students this tool, with LMC Coordinator monitoring, would serve as a nice web resource base for art students. It would be a nice way for students to share and collaborate on interesting art websites that they come upon. The art teachers in our district would also find this type of tool beneficial!