Link: http://delicious.com/
This tool allows you to organize your bookmarks by keywords ("tags") and view other people's bookmarks. This is a public website that allows you to search for websites on certain topics, and you can share your bookmarks with your friends.
There are no prerequisite skills to using this tool, and there are no resources needed (although a need to access your various bookmarks from different computers would make it even more useful).
The first step is to create an account - delicious is part of Yahoo, and you can use your Yahoo account in order to create a delicious account.
Next, you can use the site to add your own bookmarks, and they have multiple add-ons that allow you to "Bookmark this on Delicious" automatically from your computer.
From the homepage, you can look at Fresh Bookmarks (recently added), Hotlist (popular sites), or Explore Tags (search by lists of keywords):
You can search by tags, and also by users (if your friends are also delicious users).
One way to use this in a teaching environment would be to require students to create an account, and collect websites that related to a certain assigned topic. They would be responsible for tagging each bookmark with keywords of their choosing, that would allow other students to search for the topics that they needed. The students could be evaluated on their selection of bookmarks and their organization of the sites by tag.
One advantage of using this tool would be the interest factor -- the students would likely enjoy the opportunity to search the web for academic purposes and to share their findings with their classmates. One disadvantage is that it doesn't control for the actual content of the sites that they find. In other words, it is unlikely that they would explore each site in detail but would simply quickly bookmark them. The best way to evaluate the use of this site would therefore be to examine the organization and choice of tags that the students used.
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