Social Bookmarking - Tart or Tastee "Delicious"

Social book marking is another technology tool that allows for the creation of tags, and gives you the ability to save web pages within a centralized source. There are a few features that I would find useful as both a teacher and a student. To have the accessibility of your bookmarks from any computer, would be helpful to anyone who has experienced the frustration of sitting down at a computer and suddenly realizing when going into favorites that what you are looking for is not there. It has happened to me both as a teacher and a student. I can also see using the feature of bookmarks that allows the sharing of the information that you bookmark. In my Reading Strategies class I teach, I always group students and these groups are responsible for the exchange of information and documents in preparation for presentations. Being able to share resources, it appears to be similar to the wiki in this regard, can be an advantage to students working on collaborative efforts, as they decide on resources that can be used for their presentations. Being able to find your collaborators and others that have bookmarks on the same topics, to be able to rapidly gather pertinent information through others bookmarks are beneficial to teachers preparing lessons as well as students who are preparing their lessons. I am still learning what “Delicious,” does and can probably come up with other apropos things to say about its usefulness to the educational field, but I am still working at it, (i.e., tagging, book marking, networking, subscriptions, searching, navigating). My fear is that once I learn and become familiar with its uses, Delicious will have changed.