Delicious is a blocked website in our school system, so the students would not have access to it. I was able to access it through my own personal account and found a wealth of information available. The preset web links made researching various topics much easier, if bookmarks coincided with topic tagged by others. Unlike Delicious, Diigo can be used by anyone and is not blocked by the school’s security system. Teachers could bookmark items for research and students could have access to them. The security on these sites is questionable because you are looking at other people’s social tags. I would be afraid that spam could be attached to them and import a virus into my computer. Those that can be blocked for privacy could be used by teachers and their students without violating confidentiality. Teachers would have to show their students how to view the protected area through a specified search engine. These sites have comment sections available, but who would want to go back and see what other people thought about the way you linked articles together, unless they were used specifically by your students on a protected search engine.
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