Thing 17

After perusing Delicious for a while, I was able to shape an opinion on the site itself. Firstly, I'm not a fan of toolbars. That isn't to say that they are useful, my preference is to just keep all parts of the browsing experience separate. However, I can see the benefits of sites like Delicious. I use Edmodo with my students, and its easy for me to share links with my students, but only my students can see those links, and only if they have an account. A site like Delicious enables other people to benefit from the sites I've bookmarked for myself, such as Khan Academy. I did find a couple of cool resources from Delicious, but found that it was easier to just Google what I was looking for, for the most part. However, for those who are not good with key words, I could imagine that Delicious would be a good way for communities of people, like teachers, to share bookmarks relevant to their interests. Plus, having bookmarks online means you can access them from any computer, which is nice if you can't remember the URLs.