Social bookmarking is a great way for teachers to keep track of interesting websites that they might want to use to get information for a lesson. After joining Delicious, I started poking around a bit under the "educational technology" tag and I found myself actually reading some of the websites, not just scanning over them. One of them, How Stuff Works, had a link to an article titled "5 Earth Facts to Blow Your Kid's Mind" (http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/conservationists/5-earth-facts-for-kids.htm). Having an almost-7 year old myself, who is sure she knows everything there is to know about everything, I thought this would be a pretty cool article to read. It has some neat facts about Earth that would be pretty awesome to share with an elementary science class.
I can definitely see the potential for using a site like this in a classroom. You can bookmark your own websites that you come across so that you have them there for future reference. It definitely beats having to go back and search for that site or article you read but can't exactly remember where you saw it. I think teachers can absolutely take advantage of this type of site for classroom use. It would definitely come in handy!
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