Del.icio.us

I watched the podcast, looked through a site that was listed in the hot site list, and browsed through some more of the bookmarks. The bookmark I looked at was a site where a guy had composed a list of the top 10 dystopian novels. The site was interesting--I had not read all the books--but there was offensive language in it.

At this point I'm torn. Do I tell Ann the truth, or do I say what she wants to hear? Probably the A-seeking thing would be to lie and say some way that I would use Delicious in my library in order to share favorite links with my library patrons, just as she asked. To be honest, I would never use Delicious as a middle school librarian, which is what I want to be. It's a fine service, I suppose, although I don't think I really can imagine surfing the web so much that I would need it. However, out of all the material that I could expose students to, it's really far down the list. Frankly, we put a lot of time and effort into limiting what our students access on the Internet. Why would I want to inform them of a service that would put them in a position to browse all kinds of sites that I've had no chance to monitor? Sites where they might encounter inappropriate material? I guess what I'm saying is that I just don't get it or what's so great about it.