Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Thing #17


  Delicious to me seems sort of like a Pinterest of sorts.  You create "stacks" like you create "pinboards" and then add related items to them as you go.  You share those with the public, or with specific people, and search through other people's stacks as well.  You can save individual links too, without necessarily putting them in one specific stack, which is sort of similar to "liking"a pin on Pinterest.   Also, you browse stacks or links by category, just like pinboards are sorted by topic, and chose to "follow" someone that posts things you enjoy.  Finally, you can comment on the links and share them, too.
  There are a few differences of course.  One is that delicious allows you to add multiple tags to a link you've bookmarked, so it is searchable by several terms.  Also, you can comment on a stack as a whole, rather than just one link at a time.  Also, rather than being based on photos that link back to a webpage, Delicious provides links and descriptions of the website as a whole.
  I can see some potential for this website to be used in a classroom, though mostly in higher grades where the students can each have an account and can share useful links they find on the internet, but can use discretion in what they share and where they are searching.  It may be a bit too open-ended and uncensored for younger students.


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