Delicious and other new tools

I had time to look at the new tools we discussed last week on our cold days. I have used Delicious before, but I like the way Diigo is laid out too. I have taught an 8th grade research class and had the students set up Delicious accounts the first week of the class. I don't use notecards with them, but had them track all of their Internet sources with Delicious. High School teachers have taken it a step farther and had students collaborate on gathering resources for a class project using Delicious. Many districts re-image their computers over the summer and Delicious is a safe place to store your bookmarks for anyplace, anytime access. The fifth grade teacher who is taking this class with me and I were very excited about using the Vokis as a graduation project. We are still working out the details, but we are planning to have 5th graders make them in May this year. I understand Twitter, but I would not find it useful. Last year at the WEMTA conference people were using Twitter to contact each other if they thought a presenter was boring and they would then leave the presentation for something better. That is just electronic rudeness.