Lead+Teacher+Links

We're going on a magical, mystery tour around some read-write web tools today. To get started we need to visit ...

[|del.icio.us] - del.icio.us is a bookmarking site that can be used to store and share bookmarks.

According to the Wikipedia,

"A non-[|hierarchical] keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where users can [|tag] each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. [|folksonomy]). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki" ([|more about navigating tags]). Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users."

Many of the places that we are going to visit can be found at this del.icio.us link: http://del.icio.us/nixit/LT


 * Is [|YouTube] blocked by your filters? Try [|TeacherTube] for educational videos. Alternatively you can download the video at home (use [|KeepVid]) and play in [|VLC] or [|Miro] (which will also downlod YouTube and Google Videos).
 * [|GoogleMaps] and [|Google Earth] have amazing possibilities for the classroom - [|KKM]
 * There are some interesting new search tools around at the moment [|Visuwords] and [|Quintura] (or [|Quintura for Kids]) and [|WikiMindMap] are all interesting ways of looking at keywords and releationships between ideas. The results give you ideas for further, related investigation.