Delicious.com appears to provide the internet user with their favourite sites at the click of a button just as we enjoy our favourite delicacies. Indeed it is a remarkable site with boundless gateways to the internet superhighway with no stops, no traffic lights to slow down your browsing and linking to get to your favourite sites. I usually use the favourites I guess like everyone else to bookmark my frequently used pages. My websites are organized into folders so I just click the specific folder and I get quick access to my ICT sites or other reading sites.
I also have a list of sites stored for my son in a folder with his name on it. He absolutely loves construction equipment like cement mixers and excavators. By showing him these videos he learns to count to twenty by counting along with the video on naming twenty trucks as well as sees the numbers and their number name. He learns number songs and even big words like excavator. By using the favourites, it gives me quick access because with toddlers you have to since they grow impatient very quickly so when he knows he will be on the laptop he will start singing, “Mummy I want to see the mixers.”
Delicious.com offers even greater access to the web pages and I have already tagged some additional sites for him there as well. Indeed social bookmarking is rapidly growing. It is an essential asset for the reading specialist since reading involves so many areas and there is so much information out there to confuse us. We can organize our wikis and blogs so there is no need to type in addresses and even record our colleagues addresses as well. This is a great way to organize our information and research based articles. It is also beneficial to students since they will be taught study skills using the internet when they categorise their web sites to a particular topic when they are doing research. Just great and delicious things are offered in technology. Baird and Fisher (2005) stated that “social bookmarking is designed to act only as a facilitator providing learners with the tools to chunk, scaffold, organize information in a format that best suits the learner.”
I also have a list of sites stored for my son in a folder with his name on it. He absolutely loves construction equipment like cement mixers and excavators. By showing him these videos he learns to count to twenty by counting along with the video on naming twenty trucks as well as sees the numbers and their number name. He learns number songs and even big words like excavator. By using the favourites, it gives me quick access because with toddlers you have to since they grow impatient very quickly so when he knows he will be on the laptop he will start singing, “Mummy I want to see the mixers.”
Delicious.com offers even greater access to the web pages and I have already tagged some additional sites for him there as well. Indeed social bookmarking is rapidly growing. It is an essential asset for the reading specialist since reading involves so many areas and there is so much information out there to confuse us. We can organize our wikis and blogs so there is no need to type in addresses and even record our colleagues addresses as well. This is a great way to organize our information and research based articles. It is also beneficial to students since they will be taught study skills using the internet when they categorise their web sites to a particular topic when they are doing research. Just great and delicious things are offered in technology. Baird and Fisher (2005) stated that “social bookmarking is designed to act only as a facilitator providing learners with the tools to chunk, scaffold, organize information in a format that best suits the learner.”
