# 17 Delicious

Well not only have I been able to set up a Delicious account but have managed to test it on 4 different computers as I've been travelling this week. I love that you can access bookmarks from any computer (no more having to email my husband sites he needs). I have also managed to link Delicious to my igoogle page which I am chuffed about and makes bookmarking very quick and easy. I also like the privacy aspect where you can share sites or keep them for yourself. (I would definitely set it up like this for classroom use). I used Delicious years ago when it was De.lic.ious. We had a teaching network who would all bookmark great sites. I loved it, but as I haven't been teaching for a few years sort of forgot about it. One thing that did frustrate me was when not all the sites bookmarked were that great, you still had to sift through them. However, setting up my own account eliminates that a bit. I can see that in the classroom, by bookmarking relevant topics for research it would reduce time spent trawling irrelevant sites. The only down side I can see is if people bookmark too many sites that you don't find helpful and you don't have much control over what is bookmarked. Yes, I'll be using Delicious in the future and hopefully hubby will be too.

# 15 RSS and # 16 Subscribing

Well have spent quite a bit of time this week revisiting igoogle (and have now made it my home page). Now that I have reclaimed my laptop from the rest of the family (told hubby to bring his home and stop using mine and banned kids from using it), not to mention purchasing and setting up wireless so that I can work at night, I can play around a bit more with each activity. Up until now I felt as if I was just getting by, doing each activity but not really absorbing and understanding what everything was. I am immensely proud of myself for going wireless and what a surprise when husband came home and discovered my new IT skills.

I found the video RSS in Plain English great. It was very straight forward. I understand RSS to mean really simple syndication and that it delivers regular updated info without having to search whole websites. I now have the blogs I am following, regularly updated on my igoogle page which is great. As there isn't really any website I check regularly at the moment I didn't know what to subscribe to. I haven't quite worked out how to attach an RSS feed to my own blog. I think I'll have to just move along and revisit this activity when I get inspired about what to follow.

I love the concept of RSS. My husband regularly checks particular sites on his work computer and I told him he should use RSS. I think he will.

I can see that in a classroom situation this would be great if you wanted regular updates on a current affairs issue being studied. How do others use it primary classes?