After All These Years!: Lee Sattelmeyer’s Blog

I love Delicious! I don’t know how I ever got along without it. It simplifies my work by being only a URL away from my bookmarks. No longer do I worry about what I saved and on which computer it got saved on. Sure, Yahoo! will keep my bookmarks for me, but I can’t log into my Yahoo! account at work. So, Delicious really works for me.

What I can’t figure out is why I can’t seem to excite others about the site. I know in professional development sessions that others have been impressed that I can quickly and easily pull up a Web site to reinforce some concept. But the amazement stops there. In about six months of proselytizing, I’ve only inspired one convert!

Does this say something about me? Am I singing along with John Hancock in 1776 “if I’m the one to do it, they’ll run their pen quill through it…”?

Or does this speak to nature of human beings that we have a comfort zone and tend to stick to it? Or that you can “lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”? Or that we all have too much on our plate?

I don’t know the answer to this, but know that it isn’t isolated to just my building in the district. We tried to put together a mini-tech conference in August showcasing the existing technologies and resources we have in the district. We got just six responses back from the whole district indicating that the person was interested in attending the one-day conference.

Meanwhile, I keep adding to my Delicious account. Ask me to come up with resources for our IB Planners. Within a few keystrokes, I have a number of them ready to share. I don’t know how I ever lived without it.

Yours,

Lee

Dear Folks,

I'm constantly on the lookout for useful educational content and technology tools on the Web. My major criteria is that the Web site has to be effective, interesting, and makes what I do simpler and easier. I often find sites that are promising but make doing things harder. I don't really care how stunningly beautiful a site might appear. If life becomes a little more difficult, requiring me to jump through more hoops, then I pass on the site.

I obviously run into more Web sites than I can possible process in the small amount of time I have available. Sites that I don't want to forget, have access to outside of my home computer, or that I want to take a second look at go into my http://www.delicious.com account.I've grown to love Delicious.

Recently, while in San Juan, Puerto Rico for my son's wedding, I was able to access Delicious on my laptop. I was able to quickly revisit sites to continue working with the information on them and to add new bookmarks that I found while researching. I was able to do this from whatever location I was in that had WiFi.

What a time saver to not have to Google a specific topic and wade through unnecessary returned hits or to prod my preoccupied brain into trying to remember the URL.

If you haven't discovered the benefits of Delicious yet, I suggest that you open an account. It free, and it is simple. You'll be happy to add this Web 2.0 tool to your arsenal of tech tools.

Yours,

Lee