So, I'm very excited about the Delicious tool we decided to use for Talks Club! I used it a long time ago in college and forgot my log in information (which had all teaching materials!) but.... I'll move on
On the website now we have a long list of websites and I'm excited to start tagging and organizing our links. We can tag a link when it is added and it will show up in a tool bar on the left hand side under whichever category it has been filed. I think this will be great for days when we enter class with little to no idea on what to do. Or when we come up with cool ideas from out of the blue, but don't want to waste massive amounts of time trying to get it and get it set up and working for our classes right then. We can simply go to the Delicious site and pick from the categories. But I had some questions about how we want to organize these categories. There are a lot of different avenues to go with the tagging/categorizing and since we can add them to more than one category, that makes it even more tricky.
I'm thinking on a simple scale it would look something like -- "Maps" which is then broken down into gategories like ---> "World" or "US". "US" can have tags of any good maps of any of the states such as "Florida." etc..
On a more detailed scale we can also tag our links to align with the rating system we use for students (Rook, Bishop, etc). There's going to be a lot of tagging going on when incorporating all of these ideas, but I think that's what will make it most effective. We can get to what we're looking for really quickly!
Sometimes I have trouble finding news sites on the spot that are age/level appropriate and I have ended up on some wacky sites because of this. For this we can have a "News" category and tag them by student level as well as by topic or type of news. We can do the games by type of game as well as by student level.
So when we go to Delicious and we know we have a Rook student that moment in class who mentions she/he is interested in World Science, it would be very easy to find a website that is of interest to the student as well as level appropriate. We can even further tag them as "short" or "long" articles (maybe we would just want a short article to begin a class discussion with rather than a really heavy piece of reading, for example).
The tagging will be intricate but I think it would be really useful for our short classes and impromptu ideas. Or if we (or the students!) are having a terrible Friday we can have a funny category like "Get me through Friday!" Thoughts or other ideas on this? I'm excited to get all of our links and cool websites that we know of consolidated and organized!
There is a + sign when you browse other people's pages on Delicious. You can add links this way to your own feed. However, you can't add links to other people's feeds since it is technically their account. It looks like we would have to send you a link (since you hold the account) to put onto the Talks Club Delicious page.
