Delicious

=DELICIOUS=

Delicious is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to **store and share bookmarks on the web**, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages. First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer. Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on Delicious as private – only viewable by you – if you like.) Third, you can find other people on Delicious who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on Delicious chooses to save their bookmarks for a reason. You have access to the links that everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember – which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English video from Common Craft
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Strengths:

 * 1) No cost to open an account.
 * 2) No matter where you go, you can access all of your bookmarks.
 * 3) Allows you to categorize bookmarks by multiple tags.
 * 4) Can import current bookmarks from Safari / Internet Explorer.
 * 5) Can choose to make bookmarks public or private.
 * 6) It is an easy way to share and record information since you can bookmark sites with links to other sites.
 * 7) Able to network with other users to share bookmarks and notes.
 * 8) Able to bundle tags so searching for sites is easier and more efficient.
 * 9) Easy to rename and delete tags.
 * 10) Networking does not have to be reciprocal.
 * 11) Able to search within tags.
 * 12) Can organize and remember bookmarks more flexible than folders.

Weaknesses:

 * 1) When saving bookmarks, numbers such as 5.1, 5.12 are not listed in numerical order.
 * 2) Controlling your tags can be overwhelming so keep it usable for yourself.
 * 3) It may take a long time to import your bookmarks.
 * 4) Allows both capital and lower case tags, making it more likely to create redundant tags.
 * 5) Sign up for students is cumbersome. They must create a yahoo id which will give students a yahoo email.
 * 6) Delicious will not create student accounts to bypass the yahoo id issue.

Opportunities:

 * 1) Brings all of your bookmarks together in one place. Collect them using tags that put them in similar categories together.
 * 2) Ability to network with people around the globe to share information.
 * 3) Encourages you to revisit and organize ALL your existing bookmarks, maybe even delete a few.
 * 4) You can take advantage of someone else's research thus reducing time spent looking for information/related websites.
 * 5) Easily gauge a site's popularity by viewing the number of users who have linked to it.
 * 6) You can collaborate with class or group using a shared account, special tag or networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant & useful for your class or group.
 * 7) I set up safe sites that I allow my students to use when they have finished classwork, sites that I want them to practice with for Math, for example.

Threats:

 * 1) Some tags may not be appropriate.
 * 2) Sharing personal sites on the internet might not be encouraged.
 * 3) This is a new tool and not familiar - may take a while to get comfortable using it.

=IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM=
 * Create a list of student-safe links that your students can use for a specific research project.
 * Teachers can share links with their students and other teachers.
 * Families can create and share bookmarks to plan trips or to save all the websites that they use to pay bills.
 * Students can share their favorite websites and this saves valuable time when doing a unit, collaborative projects, term papers, etc., retrieve them from any computer and easily site them.
 * Put this on your Shorecrest webpage so that parents and students who visit can link to resources.
 * Create an individual tag for each class and sites and resources they might need through out the year (ex. eng101-lksw)
 * Create a tag specifically for your parents to pass on resources they might be interested in (ex. Mrs.W-parents)
 * [|Lesson plan] for introducing del.icio.us in the classroom
 * Run a feed of your class tagged sites on your class blog or wiki for students to share sites for a project

=Examples of Uses in the Classroom=
 * [|Wendy's Biodiversity/Environment Links]
 * [|Anna's Geography Links]
 * [|Chemistry Links]
 * [|Physics Links]

Video Tutorial for [|Delicious]
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**How do I save a bookmark?**
There are several ways to add a bookmark in Delicious. When you save your first bookmark, you'll notice a few new fields. Here's a description of all of them: URL: The URL field is simply the address of the page you're bookmarking. Only change this if you know what you're doing. Title: If you're using one of our bookmarking tools, this will be prefilled with the title of the page you're saving. Feel free to edit this in any way that makes sense to you. Notes: Here's where you may want to write some additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page. Tags: Enter one or more tags separated by spaces here. For more on [|tags], read our tags section. 
 * 1) The recommended way is to use one of our [|browser add-ons]. Once installed, clicking the 'Tag' button in your toolbar will bring up a window to save a bookmark.
 * 2) You can also use a [|bookmarklet] on our bookmarklet page. These are simple buttons that go on your bookmarks toolbar.
 * 3) From the Delicious website, you can manually create a bookmark by clicking "Save a new bookmark" on the top right of most pages.

**Who can I share my bookmarks with?**
You can share your bookmarks plus a short message (116 characters or less) with the following groups:
 * Twitter: Requires you to provide your Twitter username and password. Bookmarks you share with @Twitter will appear in your Twitter feed for all of your followers.
 * Delicious users: These are other friends that are using Delicious. Bookmarks you share with other Delicious users will appear in their Delicious Inbox.
 * Email Address: Anybody with an email address. We will send them an email with your bookmark and message.

**How do I share a bookmark?**
You can share with your friends and family from the Firefox Browser add-on, [|bookmarklet], or from the Delicious website. Sharing is Easy.
 * In the Send field type the recipients name or select it from the panel that will appear at the bottom of the form.
 * Once you enter one or more recipients into the Send field the Message field will automatically appear below it.
 * In the message field you can enter a short message (116 characters or less) that will be included with your bookmark.

After saving an item, you can edit its title, notes, and tags by going to your [|bookmarks] and visiting the edit link for that bookmark. Similarly, if you'd like to delete an item, visit the delete link next to its description. If the inline editing interface doesn't appear to work (for any reason), you may be able to use the link to full-screen edit to successfully edit your bookmark instead.
 * How do I edit or delete a bookmark?**

**Are my bookmarks public or private by default, and how do I make a bookmark public or private?**
Bookmarks saved with your buttons are public by default, but imported bookmarks are private by default. If you see a grey block and a lock next to a bookmark, that means it is a private bookmark and only you can see it (there is also a Share link added before the Edit link). Note: if you're logged out, you won't be able to see your private bookmarks either. To change a private bookmark to public (so that everyone else can see it), click the Share link next to it. To change a public bookmark to private, edit it, check the do not share box, and save it. While saving a new bookmark, you can also check the do not share box to make that bookmark private.

**What is __my Network__, and how do I use it?**
Your network connects you to other Delicious users: friends, family, coworkers, even new people you run across while exploring Delicious. It is a "people aggregator", collecting your favorite users' latest bookmarks in one place for you to view and enjoy. You can view and manage your network by going to your Network. 

**How do I __add and remove people__ from my Network?**
To add a person to your Network, you can select Add a user to Network from the top right of your Network page and then type their username, or you can visit their bookmarks page and select the Add to my Network link at the top right of that page. To remove a person from your Network, mouse over their name in the sidebar of your Network page, then click the "edit" icon to the right of their name, and select Remove.