Teach42

I’ve been delving deeper and deeper into del.icio.us lately and really liking what it offers. For one thing, I’m finding it easier to keep track of my bookmarks on multiple computers. Between different browsers on different machines, I have about 6 sets of bookmarks. I’m slowly but surely moving all of them over to del.icio.us because I can access them anywhere, organize them with tags and even subscribe to them via RSS! Why is that so cool? Let’s say you as a teacher want to create a list of bookmarks for the class. Students can subscribe to your list, and whenever you add a new one your students will automatically recieve it.

There were times when I got a little stumped while trying to figure out which tags to apply to a specific post. That’s where Nutr.itio.us comes in. It just adds a few extra options to the way that you add bookmarks to del.icio.us. It will list common tags that other people have used for the site you are bookmarking as well as show you a list of your own keywords. You can even drag and drop the keywords into the Tags field. Pretty simple, but a nice little improvement. Helps to take advantage of the collective knowledge of the masses!

Finally, there’s Foxylicious. This is an exention for Firefox that integrates your bookmarks from del.icio.us into Firefox’s bookmarks. It adds a del.icio.us folder to your bookmarks, and when you select it you see a list of all your keywords. Makes it really easy to find bookmarks in a pinch. Of course, if you have too many keywords, it makes things a little cluttered. It emphasize to me the importance of choosing good keywords. For example, having weblogs, blogs, and blog as tags is just a bit redundant. Gotta consolidate!

They all integrate together pretty well and I’m really getting into the whole social bookmarking thing. Want to check mine out? You can find it listed under teach42 of course!