I have had a del.icio.us account for a couple of years now, but I only used it to bookmark my favorites and didn’t explore the social aspect. I am thinking that this will be a great resource for the group project and much simpler and less clunky than blackboard. I also think the class tagging assignment will be a great way of sharing information with each other. This has also led me to think about how glad I am that I am going to library school now rather than 10 years ago. All of this technology makes everything easier. Yes, there was e-mail and IMing ten years ago, but it hadn’t really become integrated into a lot of people’s everyday activities. And now there is so much more–so much more we can do and so much more we can share.
Oh, and how great was it to play around with IMing in class? I never thought I’d see the day when I was IMing in class and not doing it on the sly. I can see myself doing IM reference work. I think it’s something I would really like to do.
I’m also looking forward to using a wiki for my group project. I had looked at wiki software before but never had a reason to use it. Again, it seems like it will be much better to use than blackboard. I will gladly say bye bye blackboard and hello del.icio.us and wikis.
I couldn’t agree with you more re: blackboard. I’m also interested in seeing what IM reference would be like.
I was too surprised by the power of del.icio.us, meaning the ease of sharing resources with others and the potential of thereof. Such a simple idea yet so powerful.
I have also used del.icio.us for a few years. I mostly use it for myself, but have used it to search other’s tags while doing research. I had no idea that you could use it collaboratively with the for: tag. I ran right back to work with that bit of info and shared it with my friend who is teaching a course using Web 2.0 applications.