Del.icio.us ~ Week6#13

Del.icio.us is a great way for students to organize their research resources. As a pre-research activity, students can preview resources and tag them for future use by themselves or others. This activity in itself would help students categorize information and improve their search skills by broadening their vocabulary of likely related tags. Because it is like creating an index in a reference book, students would more clearly understand the purpose of this highly underused resource. Students will sometimes look to the table of contents, most often flip through the pages, but seldom search the index for key words or names. This would be the first step in annotating resources which is a necessary skill in becoming information literate.