Delicious is a Social Bookmarking website. What does this mean? It allows you to organise all your favourite websites online so they can be accessed from any computer that is connected to the Internet. It also means that others can see your links and you can see theirs which makes it a very powerful tool for finding great resources. You can create a network of people who can all share their links together.

It has plenty of application for education from a new way to research an assignments to sharing resources among staff and with parents.

It all works around a concept called Tags. This is where you add categories to a website not unlike what you would do to a book in a library catalogue. For example if I was going to add The Age website I might tag it newspaper currentaffairs Australian broadsheet

The delicious website is www.delicious.com

Delicious provides two buttons for your browser that make saving a website to delicious easy. At school we have the delicious buttons already installed on the network. At home or on your laptop you will need to download and install them. It is a very easy process!

Activity One

• Go to the delicious website and sign up for a delicious account!

Activity Two

• Find a website that reflects who you are
• Bookmark it in delicious
• Write something about yourself in the notes section that you don’t mind being public
• Tag it with BCCWWW01

We will then be able to see everyone’s websites when we look for that Tag!

Activity Three

• Save away!!

Tip: If you highlight some text on the website you want to bookmark it automatically appears in the notes section. Cool!!