I have just spent the last 15 minutes testing out Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/). I created an account and then went to google and began searching information about Joseph Stalin (since I am a Socials teacher and we just finished WWII and the Cold War - it's not that I have a thing for Russian dictators with bushy moustaches).
When I found relevant pages I bookmarked them. When my search was complete I looked at the list of resources I had collected and I was very impressed. Surprisingly nothing off topic was included in my list of resources. In fact, every source was relevant to the topic of "Joseph Stalin."
I found that this process was similar to Google's program where you can have updates sent to you with relevant content (I can't remember the name of the program at the moment).
While I did find Delicious to be deliciously interesting, I don't know if it is a program I would use on a regular basis. After years of researching and the past year and a half of completing online courses for UBC I have become a bit of an expert on finding relevant resources on my own. So while Delicious is a cool idea, I don't see it getting much use in my academic life.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you tried Delicious... it really is a social networking site, as you know, since people can sign up to "follow" your findings and vice versa and this can be very powerful over time. You may want to give it a chance over a longer period of time. I think it really can huge potential for sharing findings.
Just my thoughts... :-)
Thanks
Cathy
After your encouragement to give it a chance I talked to my fiancee about it. She is currently doing her Masters in Educational Technology and told me her experiences. We both played around with Delicious and I can see its value. I don't think I was really using it properly. But with a little help and encouragement it's actually quite cool!
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