I've been using Delicious ever since I got this computer. It has revolutionized my bookmarking. Now I have three categories of bookmarks - those on the tool bar (gmail, goodreads, delicious - sites I visit really frequently), those on the menu (useful sites - Boston weather, Boston movie times and so forth), and those in Delicious (the ones I go to when I have a bit of time to fritter). Of course, the Delicious ones are the most fun!
Delicious would be a fabulous tool for teachers. If I were still teaching, I'd tag sites that I could use with various curriculum units. I always bookmarked things, but since I never organized my bookmarks, they were impossible to find - especially at the last minute, which is when I was usually doing things. I know a librarian who's using Delicious in her school library where she tags sites for units that the various teachers are doing. I assume she and the teachers share their bookmarks, a practice which will soon produce a very rich resource for every unit. It seems to me that Primary Source could do the same thing with each seminar group. At the end of the seminar, each participant would have an extensive online resource to use in their teaching.
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