Thing #13--Social Bookmarking & Tagging w/ Delicious

http://delicious.com/kperez523

At school, I ran into another large space where a video was supposed to be, but I was able to access it at home. The link to the In Plain English video website required an override, but then I needed to download Adobe Flash 10 which I was blocked from doing.

My first thought after reading over this section is that it will probably take me awhile to remember how to appropriately put a tag on a URL address. Then it occurred to me that this would probably be done automatically ? I can definitely see the benefit from an organization standpoint. I guess if I had to explain it to someone else, tags (in the URL's) are like subheadings except they not only label the location, they "speed dial" you to the specific place so you don't have to flip through all the pages. In this day and age, nobody has the time to "flip". Although some of the tags sent me to some unexpected places, in most cases tagging seems to help avoiding this. Then using the tags should help narrow the selection when searching for a specific site. I can definitely see how the shared tag could be helpful for a classroom teacher, but I'm not sure how to go about setting this up. Can it be for a website, a blog or a wiki ?

When trying to join delicious at school, I was unable to see the letters that I was supposed to type in the box (to finish the process). I sent a request to support, but rather than wait 24 hours for a response, I did it at home. I'm curious if anyone else has done the majority of this class at school and had similar issues. If so, this is certainly something that should be corrected, if possible. Our family computer is having problems and my son's is not normally available (college kid).