I have had a Delicious account for several years now--long enough to be greatful that all the dots have been removed. Long enough to be sorry that it was taken over by Yahoo, because students need to get a Yahoo account in order to create a Delicious account now. I have taught studnets to use Delicious as their bookmarking system because it travels with them. I also recommend that they add tags directly associated with assignments, such as the teacher name and course description. Someday, when they are trying to remember resources used in a previous assignment, it may be easier to remember that that was in schallon's class, or economics--thus schallon or economics become a tag. Meanwhile, they learn to use other useful tags--and how to use search terms to search the web. My Delicious account, schallon, has 380 useful bookmarks. Thanks to tagging, I can find what I want. Thanks to Delicious, I can take them wherever I go, though I miss the toolbar buttons to take me directly there.
I love Delicious. I have passed the wealth on to many teachers and students at my site and will continue to do so. However, I intend to migrate my bookmarks over to Diigo someday soon, but I can barely stand the thought of keeping up to sets of bookmarks.... I especially like Diigo's enhanced offer to K-12 and higher ed educators so that they can create student accounts, free from non-educational advertising, made useful for their specific teaching curricula. The accounts have to be applied for and approved, but might very well make it worthwhile to migrate over. Diigo also allows for highlighting and sticky notes (other things as well--I've just been checking it out in a workshop).
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