It's important for students to have motivation in school. What better motivation than telling them they can publish their assignments to a website on-line for not only their teacher but peers (and possibly others, depending on the privacy setting) to see? They can get feedback from their teacher and peers, edit and resubmit their work, and have their own site to take charge of (they can use web applications like blogs to journal their thoughts, exactly like what I'm doing right this moment). These tools empower to our youth today.
So besides empowering our youth, which is an extremely important task, we must empower ourselves! I was introduced to a site called www.delicious.com (please check it out, it's a very easy website to navigate). Del.icio.us is a web application that allows you to collect all of your favorite sites, tag them in a way so you can remember (as well as staying organized; for example, if you tag several sites as "Contemporary poetry" you can click on that tag and see all of your sites that fall under that specific tag. Genius, right?), and share them with others. What a fantastic tool!
So go ahead, make a Del.icio.us account, collect your favorite sites, tag them, and go back and see how easy to use and wonderfully organized it truly is!
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