Delicious

You know, sometimes the most obvious and simplest things are worth re-stating. Delicous is a bookmark management tool, but those bookmarks are online and can be shared and tagged. I’ve been using it myself since 2004 and I’ve got nearly 2500 pages bookmarked on it. I never keep local bookmarks of favourites any more and when I change computers my links are always there.

But, that’s just a start. I’ve seen several ‘reluctant’ technology teachers turned on to the first idea of web 2.0 by the simplicity of Delicious. You can create an account for a class, or a course or a team of teachers and multiple people can add to the links, which are easily accessed by tags. We began one a couple of years ago when we were writing the EnglishBook so you can take a look at the EnglishBook Delicious Links and see how it works. One nice thing is the logical way the URLS work. The EnglishBook’s Delicious page is http://delicious.com/englishbook but if you want to see the list of tags you just add / and the tag. So all the sites we’ve tagged citizen_kane are at the link: http://delicious.com/englishbook/citizen_kane That link is permanent and can be emailed to a class or cohort.

There are sites now that allow you to bookmark and annotate, and bookmark, annotate and share. But Delicious has a nice simplicity that just works.