Uh oh! I may have just found a site that is more addicting than Pinterest. Those are words that I NEVER thought would be said (well typed) by me! After spending over an hour looking around on Dealicious, I figured this blog post wasn't going to write itself, so I needed to get focused and start writing!
The thing I loved most about Dealicious was the simple fact that it's a very useful and extremely simple way to keep websites organized. After watching the video tutorial, I had to chuckle to myself when they mentioned how quickly bookmarked websites can get out of hand. Sometimes I feel I need an hour just to find a site that I saved as a favorite. Sites such as Dealicious help to organize these sites therefore creating more of an organized chaos! Up until this point, the only time I thought of using tags was to humiliate my friends by tagging them in embarrassing pictures on Facebook. Turns out tagging can be used in a much more constructive manner.
When I first started looking around Dealicious, I began by following the directions and searched for educational technology. This provided a wealth of options. I spent a great deal of time looking around at the results. One site that I found particularly interesting, for obvious reasons, was Kidblog. http://kidblog.org/home/. This is a site where teachers can set up a free class blog for their students to use! The classroom uses for this site are limitless!
After I got my fill of educational technology, I started using Dealicious to look for some resources for an upcoming paper that I need to research and write. What a fantastic resource to use when researching! If you are anything like me, when researching, you will find a great site, go off that site to some others, and then spend hours searching for that original site. Dealicious can really be useful in this situation. It is also fantastic that these tags can be accessed from any computer, therefore not limiting me to my computer favorites bar!
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