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Del.icio.us is just like a favourites tool that is on your computer yet with a twist…

Del.icio.us is an online bookmarking website. It takes your favourites and allows you to view them from any computer, and others can also view them. It puts your favourites and places them on the World Wide Web. You enter a network with people and they can view your favourites and you can view theres. You can also leave comments about the web sites.

This is a great site for learning within the classroom and also within the community of teachers in your school if you are a teacher. For example you can have a category for good language sites to use for English lessons and other teachers could log on to your account and see what you have added and also use the web sites to benefit them too.

Another great thing about del.icio.us is that users can also leave comments and feedback about sites you have saved. Here is an example from my del.icio.us account – a user has left a comment about the BBC site i posted as my favourite about Ancient Egypt -

user notes

Aug ‘07

• Interactive great source

  ballantinesan

 Here is the link to my del.icio.us account – http://del.icio.us/url/0e9086faadeffd72797ddfe93d54c0ea 

 Whilst on our practicum for teaching we were encouraged to sign up for Del.icio.us and i made an account. I found it very useful as i found other websites were i would of never found if i was browsing the net alone. I think it is a great tool for teachers and as we delve deeper into a world were pens and paper are becoming a thing of the past i think this is a great tool for teachers and students to use.

Teachers can use face book in the classroom fristly by creating a group for their class for example. The whole class will then be able to interact with each other and post new infromation on their wall.

for example if you were teaching a subject about world war two you can add a hyperlink to your wall on your face book account for the students to access.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1FU6126bk8 (WWII VIDEO)

 This is a far better way to teach rather than using books and pens. The teacher could even hyperlink some information she wants the students to access and they could all see it and get on it through the teachers wall on her facebook. You could also add photos and pictures onto facebook, so this could be used in the classroom when the teachers needs to get an image across to the students maybe in Ancient History and get them to analyze the source.

summary: facebook=

• form a group with class
• the teacher has control
• each student can contribute. everyone can do their bit adding hyperlinks ect.
• like having a class in the virtual world so quite children can also contribute.
• the student builds up their own understanding to the topic by having a look at others input.
• its always changing you never have a final product.

facebook is safe and private!!!! which is important…

What ever you do online must be creativeThe use of the wall in face book for example.It also must be collaborative eg: the wikiThe thirds thing is that little spark of difference eg: multimedia or pics for example. The fourth one is the need to have trust and confidence in other people.You have to set up your site to enable people to multi task