Thing 20 - Bookmarking with del.icio.us

Username - hagenk13

I started out by tagging a handful of sites that I use both personally and at school. I think that this is going to be a very helpful tool as I continue to find ways to be more time-efficient and promote collaboration among colleagues. My favorite part about it is that I can access my bookmarks from any computer. There have been many instances where I found a website on my home computer, but then could not find it again at school if I forgot to email the address to myself. The "social" part of all of this is going to be a great aspect to utilize as well. I can see a lot of time being saved by being able to look at what sites others have found useful. I am excited that my partner counselor and I can share websites over del.icio.us, versus trying to remember to send an email (and of course remembering to either attach or copy in the website!).

I can see using this tool with one of the student groups the counselors help coordinate at school. Each year, our diversity council puts on a Respect Y.E.S. assembly for the entire school that promotes respecting yourself, each other, and school. This assembly takes a ton of planning time, and if we could set up a system where kids could help look for material at home and then save it to del.icio.us, we could probably spend a lot more time at school doing the actual practice for the assembly. It is a great way to keep things organized so that I am not collecting little notes from ten different students and reading emails form several different teachers who are helping us with the project.