Thing #13

I have used Delicious before and I really appreciate the way that it facilitates research. As an educator, the ability to make content-specific tags for research units truly streamlines the research process for my students. One of the things that I really appreciate about this and other social bookmarking sites is the opportunity that it gives students to share and discover new resources. Since it's a "peer driven information directory," users can access the information that others have found, as well as contribute to this bank of knowledge. As students build a shared reading list for their research, they are learning to collaborate with others--a powerful component of web 2.0.