Before Firefox decided to stop supporting the Google toolbar, I used Google bookmarks religiously. My ability to access my bookmarks from any computer was a real plus. As far as I can tell, Delicious is almost exactly the same, except that a lot of websites have a Delicious link so that people don't even have to go to the trouble of the major bookmark organization process immediately. Even better is the ability to follow others' stacks. Now I don't have to build a bunch of categories on my own; I can use the stacks of other Delicious users to help me! I think I can definitely say that Delicious will be one of my new homepages.
Glogster, I have to say, didn't impress me as much. Although the look of Glogs may be more original than that of traditional blogs, there isn't much appeal for me in the blogging tools in general (and I do realize the irony of this). I can say, however, that if I should assign my students a project that would require a presentation tool, I will think of Glogster. The format would likely be very appealing for high school students, and if this medium is more likely to engage them in their work, I'm all for it.
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