Virtual Introduction via Delicious

Delicious is one of the few accounts that I actually had before taking this course so luckily I was familiar with it's general purpose and how to navigate within it.  Just taking a "peek" at our scils598s09 collection of bookmarks, made me feel overwhelmed!  We have created and linked some great things, and when looking closely at the individual links, the viewer definitely sees a bit of commonality and some individualism in terms of our interests and personalities.

While we have collected some great "stuff," I have to wonder if it is wise to shock a novice social software student with this collection.  Through the last weeks, we have taken one step at a time and have learned how to connect all the pieces of our journey thus far.  We can appreciate this massive collection of bookmarks, because we participated in building it.

Bottom line, the idea of using Delicious as an introduction/meet and greet for new students is a good one depending on the knowledge level of the students.  I think a course like this, where we come with varied levels of experience may not be the right forum for this type of virtual introduction.  However, it would be great for an intermediate or advanced social software course.