Principal Administrator Person:
I have just been made aware of an online resource that has great potential for serving the teachers at this school as a resource sharing tool. It is a site called http://delicious.com. Teachers can join this site, set their membership to private, and then share educational Internet links with each other. The site is free and provides us with a valuable tool by bookmarking URL's we have saved to the site. So a new English teacher, such as myself, could peak in and follow links marked by other teachers in the English department that have taught the same subject matter as myself. I think Wikipedia provides a great and more thorough explanation of how it works:
Delicious uses a non-hierarchical classification system in which users can tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms (generating a kind of folksonomy). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://delicious.com/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.
Delicious has a "hotlist" on its home page and "popular" and "recent" pages, which help to make the website a conveyor of internet memes and trends.
Delicious is one of the most popular social bookmarking services.[2] Many features have contributed to this, including the website's simple interface, human-readable URL scheme, a novel domain name, a simple REST-like API, and RSS feeds for web syndication.
Use of Delicious is free. The source code of the site is not available, but a user can download his or her own data through the site's API in an XML or JSON format, or export it to a standard Netscape bookmarks format.
All bookmarks posted to Delicious are publicly viewable by default, although users can mark specific bookmarks as private, and imported bookmarks are private by default. The public aspect is emphasized; the site is not focused on storing private ("not shared") bookmark collections.[3] Delicious linkrolls, tagrolls, network badges, RSS feeds, and the site's daily blog posting feature can be used to display bookmarks on weblogs.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)
I'd be happy to type-up a memo directing the school staff on how to get on board and sign-up for this helpful teacher tool. Please ask me more about Delicious and I will be glad to discuss the site with you.
Sincerely,
M......McD
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