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Susan Nicolay Delicious! Discover Yourself! Link straight to website-http://delicious.com/

After doing some research on the Delicious social bookmarking website, I found a lot of interesting information. The site is owned by __Yahoo__ and it is used by people to organize their bookmarks or websites that they enjoy and share them with friends. It is a __free__ and unique social networking website. It is unlike most of the social networking sites because it is more about searching the web and sharing things you find instead of lots of pictures and commenting like users do on facebook. The people using the website have bookmarked over 180 __million__ URLS in the past couple years. The bookmarked webpages are organized by an index word in which people can search for a specific URL under the index word. The users make up and use these index words by tagging their bookmarked pages and then other users can search that index word to find webpages about that subject. There a homepage with popular pages and recent pages that people have been looking at. The users are also about to sort the URLs under a page called “Stack”. The stack is useful because all similar subject web pages can be put into a stack and it makes it easier for the users of Delicious to search. There are so many different categories such as arts and design, inspiration, __education__, fashion, entertainment, and so on for users to browse through. When you're looking through the stacks, you can see how many links are available and how many times this Stack has been viewed. Once you click on these categories, it shows a small picture, a main idea and a couple sentences to summarize what the specific website is about and the users can then decide if that is what they are looking for. You can see what other users are tagging. These categories make it easy for someone who is quickly looking for an idea and need to find a website to help them! After looking through the website, I realized there are so many links for every category and it shows how much you can receive from other users instead of trying to research something all by yourself. All the pages that are mentioned in the stack include a link that the users can click and brought directly to the site about that specific subject. Example: I think this website would be helpful for teachers because of the organization. If the teacher ever wanted to do a research project in which the __students__ show where they got their information from and they are too young to write a bibliography, they can use this website to bookmark their websites and they can be graded on the quality of the websites and if the __students__ organized them in the correct category. Another great thing teachers can use it for is finding ideas for the classroom! There is an __education__ “stack” that has many ideas, pictures, videos, and advice. I looked through it and learned a lot! This can be used to enhance learning the in classroom because it can easily be accessed and a teacher can pull up webpages, pictures, videos or any visuals about a subject. This can enhance Universal design for learning. This is an example of the UDL stack from the website; it gives good ideas and articles about how to encourage and show UDL in the classroom. http://delicious.com/stacks/view/C0YwQw This website can help if a __student__ if he/she is struggling in a certain area and a teacher is stuck on how to verbally explain the lesson to them. Students usually enjoy visual learning and they can even explore this website focusing on their trouble area if they want! Link for "funstuff" under the education stack on delicious! -http://delicious.com/stacks/view/KdU1ky

Added by: Emily Fricke,

Delicious is an amazing website. Everything about it above is true, but you may still be wondering just exactly what type of people use this website. A major percent of people that use delicious, are teachers. This website is perfect for someone that is trying come up with new lesson plans every week. This website is very similar to [|Pinterest] in they way you use it. You browse through stacks of websites that are split up in different categories, and you can bookmark anything that you think you would like. This is much better than just browsing on a search engine because you get to see a picture of the website and they are split up by the category of the websites instead of just the name of them. Having all of this information at your fingertips is an amazing thing for teachers. you do not want to the same assignments over and over and when you cannot think of a new way to teach something you could go straight to [|delicious.com] and go to the education stack. This contains websites all about education and the things that go along with it.

Not only could teachers learn from this but students could as well. For example if they are having trouble trying to find a website that information about current political issues they can go to the news and politics stack [] and browse through the websites that are all related to their topic. Once they find a website they like they can bookmark it and add it to a stack of their own, so that it is easy to find again. Like I said before delicious is a lot like [|Pinterest] in design but I believe that it is much better because instead of getting just a picture of something with a caption you get a whole website to go to. Now like many other social media websites they are not really designed for learning or teaching rather just for pleasure, but this goes to show that you can use many different things to help you learn and technology is one of the biggest. I hope this cleared things up about how and when you could use [|delicious.com].