Social Networking

Another case where I neglect to consider how the resources that I use could come into play in my own classroom. While I don't have a del.icio.us account of my own, I do use the site to find fiction of interest as well as other resources. It just didn't occur to me how incredibly useful this would be for my own students, particularly when they are doing research projects. It would give them a place to start from, and that would be really helpful for them. They could even share the sites that they find themselves with their classmates by adding it to the class account - much more expedient and helpful to all then them coming to me and letting me know about it.

I'll definitely be using del.icio.us for my student research projects from now on - it's a much better starting point than google (not to disparage google, as I love it, but - as Richardson said - it can really constrict what we find and doesn't always lead us to the best resources out there on whatever we happen to be researching).