Social Bookmarking

Today I've been playing around with del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site. I've added this to my blog and have spent many hours adding my old bookmarks from several different computers and browsers. A social bookmarking tool like del.icio.us would be an excellent web 2.0 tool to use in the classroom. Teachers could share their del.icio.us page with their classes and allow students to see the sites they have bookmarked for an individual lesson or unit. A teacher could also create a del.icio.us account for each class and allow students to update the links for the account. Of course, if a teacher was going to do this, there would have to be conversations about digital citizenship and posting only links that are acceptable for school use. I am confident that had I done this with my sophomores or seniors last year, we could have built up a significant list of resources for our class. This link could also be included on a teacher web page.