Do not judge me because of my del.icio.us name, when one creates his Yahoo account in middle school, he should not be judged as an adult: bigben9111984.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I feel that del.icio.us is a better search engine for finding useful teaching content. Because motivated users tag sites that they found useful, social communities are able to arise. As a teacher of Spanish, I hope to become a member of the Spanish teaching community. My first contribution to the community was to tag the website learnspanish.com. While it has been tagged 97 times, I am contributing to the community because I am making more people aware of the site. As a member of the community, I was able to find an obscure video that shows students how to construct informal tú commands. While I found the video a tad too boring for my class, it may be a useful tool to use when a substitute teacher is present. Because individuals interested in learning/teaching the Spanish language tag sites that they find useful, there is less 'spam' in a del.icio.us tag than a Google search.
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OT: For whatever reason, I cannot read the del.icio.us name without thinking of Gwen Stefani's B.A.N.A.N.A.S.
Hey Ben!! I checked out the Spanish site you suggested. I liked the verb quizzes!! I am thinking about directing my students to this site to practice their conjugations. I couldn't find you on delicious though- what is your name?
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