Prior to beginning working on Thing #17, I had only ever used StumbleUpon out of the tools which were mentioned. I am still more of a StumbleUpon fan than I am a Delicious fan, however, I can see useful features of them both.
When I created an account on Delicious and began searching for things on there using the keywords "educational technology", I came across many useful things but did not find the tags to be very helpful in finding what I was looking for, other than finding TeacherTube on the site. It took more time than I felt necessary to find things on the site that would be useful to me, however that could have been my error in entering keywords.
Within the classroom, I would prefer to use Diigo, as it was easier to navigate for me, both in the mobile and desktop formats. Social bookmarking tools are very useful to teachers because they offer opportunities for teachers everywhere to share their resources with one another for free, at any time on any day. This is incredibly important when you look at it as a nationwide aspect. Teachers in California may "StumbleUpon" a great web activity for teaching students long division, post it on Diigo or Delicious, and then a teacher in New York or Florida could come across it minutes later as the perfect thing to complete her lesson plan. Collaboration is important within the classroom, within the school, within the community, but also nationwide. Collaboration has only positive aspects for the educational world.
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