I think that social bookmarking could be very useful in my teaching. I searched on Delicious for biology lesson plans, and I was almost overwhelmed with the number of responses. However, it is nice to know that other people had already looked at these sites and determined that they were "good enough" to want to bookmark. That will cut down on the time that I spend "Googling" for useful lesson plans.
I could see this as also being a very useful way for students to look for helpful websites. Too often I find that students spend so much time trying to sift through their Google search results and often end up picking sites that aren't really all that useful. It seems that Delicious would be a good way to help them refine their searches.
I also think it would be a great way for students to share resources with each other and for me to point them to particular resources. One project that students complete in my biology class is a newsletter/wanted poster/research project on a virus or bacteria. I just quickly searched for a site on botulism and bookmarked it with one of the tags being hbiokits. Then when I searched for that tag in Delicious, the site about botulism came up. This would be a great way to help students narrow their searches to sites that I have already previewed and to let them add to those sites (rather than going through the process of bookmarking sites on our school's media center page).
My Delicious username is kkits.
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