Delicious

**Delicious Lesson**
**State Standards:**

Use media and technology resources for self-directed learning, support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning throughout the curriculum.
**ISTE Standards:**

 d. process data and report results.
**DOK **

This lesson is a 2 on Webb's Depth of Knowledge Chart.

In this lesson, students collect and display information about a topic on the Delicious website. Students then compare and classify their links, deleting the links that no longer apply. Students will assess their use of this website and after reading peer responses, construct a response as to whether this website will help with other classes.


 * Subject: Computer Applications Grade: 8**
 * Teacher: **
 * School: Middle School**

I. OBJECTIVES: a. Students will create a User Name and Password for Delicious. b. Student will be able to search for link about a topic. c. Students will save links about a specific topic to their profile.

II. CONTENT: a. Appropriate Use of Internet b. Social Bookmarking c. Internet Research

III. MATERIALS: a. Computers/Internet b. Delicious Website

IV. PROCEDURE

a. Introductory Activity i. Students may work individually or in pairs. ii. Have students access the Delicious website and create a user name and password. Students must supply an email address to access the website. iii. Once students log-in, they may use the search button to locate links about a specific topic (ex. Civil War, Gettysburg). iv. Students can save links that they find on the delicious website to their profile.

b. Developmental Activity i. Have students locate links about their topic from the internet ii. Students should save the links to their delicious profile. iii.Have students look at all of their saved links at the end of class, and delete the ones that no longer apply to their topic.

c. Concluding Activity i. Students should answer the question: "How can you use the Delicious website to assist you with other classes?". Students will post their responses to this question on the classroom wiki.

d. Evaluative Activity i. Look at student profiles to make sure they are saving appropriate links.

e. Enrichment Activity i. Students may create Stacks from their links and post them to the Delicious website. ii. Stacks are posted for the entire website to access and use for research. (Be very careful at this step, anybody can access).