Thing 11

Oooooh are we loving Del.icio.us! What a terrific way to overcome the limitations of our bookmark bar and the annoyance of perusing "history." Loved the BUTTONS, which will now supercede all new additions on Miss Shelved's button bar. We especially liked (and will introduce to our classroom teachers at summer's end during workshop week) Pagekeeper. At the elementary level, teachers are urged to provide hotlinks rather than have students attempt to type in URLs (with uncontrollable, unintentional and sometimes unfortunate results). At the Media Center, we facilitate this by maintaining a school "links" page which shows up upon internet login. However, teachers fail to request that sites be added, neglect to request that sites be deleted, and often find that the lists have gotten too long to be particularly useful. Pagekeeper is the ideal solution to individualize and quickly update for classroom use.