Delicious is essentially an online bookmark page. . Adding links is easy to do by copying and pasting the link or you can add a button onto you tool bar. With this button, all you have to do is when you find a site you want to save, simply click the button and it brings up a box for you to give more information on the site, and then simply save it. You can also search keyword and brows through sites that other people have bookmarked. This allows people to expand their search to site they may not know about or have found on their own. Delicious is a great way to share helpful sites. I simply looked up "math lesson plans" and was given a whole list of links that led to websites that contained wither full math lesson plans, or helpful activities to do with math students. There were over 200 results for this search.
Google reader uses RSS or Really Simple Syndication to bring things that people want to hear about together on one page. Websites publish a list of updates called feeds. Users can subscribe to these feeds, so whenever that website adds new content it will appear in the users google readers. The article shows up with only a small portion that can be read, however by simply clicking on the title the user can view the full article. Users can also tag articles that they like so that they can more easily find them again later. Users can also sort feeds into folders. they may have an entire subscription feed in a folder, or simply one article. It is simple to do. This could be very useful for teaching, as if there are certain sites that provide good articles on teaching or maybe you want you students to keep up with a certain website, you can subscribe to it, and then both the teacher and the students will have easy access to the content of those stories without having to search for them.
The library thing is basically and online card catalog. You can make a library of the books that you own, or make a wish list of books that you want. Users can search for specific books or the can search by author or even just by a key word. The books may even link users to a sight were they can buy the book, and there is palace for users to review the books or even have conversations about them. Users even have the ability to add books that may not already be not he website. This would be a great thing for teachers to have, as students can get on, and have a full list of books that the teacher has in the classroom. This would be a great resource to use to discover new books in about various topics. The students could use it when dong research projects to find books that may help them. Of course, they would then have to find a library that also had that book, but it could be a great starting point.
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