In the Spanish department, Sabela and the team had been collecting many many weblinks for students to learn Spanish. However, the links were very difficult to keep track of, and students confronted with this unsorted link list would have probably turned round and found their own, thus making it pointless for the staff to have found them at all.
They needed a way to store and categorise the links. The best way to store links online is using a social bookmarking site, and after taking some advice from the e-learning department, they chose to use delicious.
Delicious has one feature that makes it perfect for this job. When you save a bookmark you can tag it with any number of keywords which makes the links you save much more easy to find. Specifically, if you search for a tag in your delicious stream, delicious filters out all the links tagged with that word, AND allows you to output an RSS stream of that query in a very logical sense.
For example, if you want to filter the myroespanish delicious links for all the resources for learning about the "pasado" tense, just click the "pasado" tag and the URL changes to http://delicious.com/myroespanish/pasado
Look at the URL and you can see that it's very easy to understand. It's the subset of myroespanish and below that the subset of pasado tags. Simple!
On every search page, delicious gives you the option to output an RSS of the search term
By outputting this and feeding it into customised feedreaders at Netvibes.com/myroespanish Sabela created a customised link portal for the students which lets them search for pre-pricked links by topic
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