Thing # 17

Del.icio.us is a creative website and makes bookmarking a better experience and the site itself is very easy to use and navigate. Having to only remember one website is a lot better than having to remember 16, and this benefits me because I complete a lot of my work at school in the lab, which isn't my personal computer so I don't bookmark sites to those computers. I would write the web addresses down so that I could use them later, just to misplace them or throw them out by mistake, but luckily for me I don't have to do this anymore and can bookmark them using the Del.icio.us website, and have access to the websites instantly on any computer!

What's really cool is that when you are using or looking at other websites that have been bookmarked in your social network, you can see the comments and tags they used for the site, which saves you time because it helps you weed through the best sites from the not so useful websites.

This tool has great potential for use in the classrooms as well as a social bookmarking tool. When age appropriate, accounts can be set up and used for group projects allowing each student to see the research their peers have found, which eliminates each group member from using the same sources providing a broader research database for the project. It can also be used by teachers and their peers as a tool to share new and interesting student interactive websites that can be used in the classroom to help the students develop an understanding of the concepts being taught.