Thing 11~Tagging and Del.icio.us

I create a Del.icio.us account and did some tagging. I find that you can lose track of time when looking through all of the sites that have been tagged and tagging sites for yourself. This could be very valuable if you find an article that you want to read and then tag it for later when time allows you to go back to the article. I use the same computer every day so I still like bookmarking my sites. I think tags would make it more useful, you can break the sites down to it's importance or usablility. Tags are important in cataloging books and information. This is just one more way to make the Internet more userfriendly to viewers.

I think Del.icio.us could be a very valuable tool for students to use when doing research. They can bookmark their sites and then log back in to see the sites from any computer. This makes the research much more accessible for users and it would help with not having to print off all the pages. Bookmarking is nice if they are at the same computer all the time but classes have access to four different labs and the media center, making bookmarking not useful. Students can use this for research and help save time. They can bookmark the site and then tag it according to the sections they need for research.

Our Media Center could use the tagging to help students with research. We could put the websites into categories and then students would have a place to start with their research. We could add our links to Del.icio.us which could help students find information fast and from any computer.