Online bookmarking

Research tool

Seeing how many other people have also made a link a favourite gives an indication of how reliable or interesting a resource is. This makes the site a superb research tool for students working on language projects, or projects related to the culture of a country where the language is spoken.

Start a students' bookmark page

Students can search for specific ‘tags’, or keywords, and see the latest pages or most popular pages to be bookmarked.

Bookmark some pages

Create a del.icio.us account for a class or age and stage. Give the students the username and password. When they find interesting pages to help with the work of the class, they can bookmark them and classify them for all to see.

Keep tabs on the tags

If you are concerned about the nature of pages that students may bookmark, you can receive updates every time a new page is posted, by subscribing to the page’s RSS feed. Want to know more about RSS feeds? Visit the MFLE guide to RSS. Alternatively, you as teacher can decide what bookmarks are most useful for the class and set up the class bookmarks page as you see fit.

Start a colleagues' bookmark page

Set up a del.icio.us account for the colleagues in your school or cluster to share information you find in relation to certain themes. Thanks to tagging, people will quickly be able to find out all the useful information in the authority on a given topic.

MFLE member Shirley Campbell-Morgan has started her own MLPS collection of links - view it at Shirley's del.icio.us page.

Communicate.06 conference page on del.icio.us

Participants and speakers at Communicate.06, the Scottish CILT, LT Scotland and PiE conference on ICT, were able to share each other’s favourites on each topic through the Communicate.06 del.icio.us page, which brought together any favourites on any del.icio.us account as long as they were ‘tagged’ or labelled ‘Communicate.06’.