From what I've seen so far of citeulike and del.icio.us, I am not a fan of these sites! I'm having a really hard time figuring out exactly how they work, and exactly what their benefit is!
I know, from the readings we did last week, that they are supposed to make it easier to have access to what other people have found relevant in relation to specific topics. To do this, people with like interests join a group where they can easily see articles or sites that other people have tagged.
I'm a little confused about how to do all of this tagging, and how to find other people's tags, and I'm sure that the system works for plenty of people....
But right now, I'm too busy to look for things that other people are interested in, and too busy to try to figure out how to tag things, and just because it is supposed to be a time-saving system that I can't figure out, it's making me cranky.
I did sign up for citeulike and found an article to start my library with. I tried to figure out how del.icio.us works, but had no luck there.
This looks like one technological tool that I'm not ready to use at all, let alone in a classroom!
One resource that I do enjoy, although it is not at all predictable, just for fun, is stumbleupon. I find that it is highly entertaining, although, again, I'm not sure that this would be a good tool for the classroom, unless there is a way to set it to only go to webpages in a certain language.
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I appreciate your honesty about the social bookmarking tools. Some take more time than others to learn. I hadn't heard of the stumbleupon site before. Thanks for sharing that resource. 10/10
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