mmmm ... del.icio.us

By now most of us have heard of delicious, the social bookmarking site. What does 'social bookmarking' mean? Just that - it's a way of storing our internet favourites, and being able to share them with others (or not!).

As part of our cluster inquiry project, I've set up a delicious account with some sites that might be useful for your Discover Tasman project. This can be shared amongst yourselves, or with your students. View this at: http://del.icio.us/discoverit . Just click on the 'tags' at the side (these are keywords used to describe a site) to see a list of websites on that topic. For this project, you will find the most useful, and reliable, sites under the tag 'new_zealand'.

Our lead teachers have set up their own accounts, and now share their bookmarks with each other. A couple have set up an account for their school syndicate, and will use this with their students for directed internet searching. Of course the kids can get into this site from anywhere, so can easily continue with their research from home.