When I first saw the title 'delicious' I wondered about the great merger between Web 2.0 and food? Similarly I too pondered a similar thought about great mergers the last time I went to Church. Let me elaborate.
It was a compulsory Sunday Liturgy for my son's school. The church holding around 600 was standing room only and the cast overflowed down the stairs and into the streets - to listen to the dolcit tones of the grecian chants through the loudspeakers- just so you wouldn't miss anything. (The neighbours must just love Sundays- that and the parking issues..)
Now for the great merger....as the loudspeaker chanting commenced prior to 9am, and the congregation filtered up the main steps and 'muscled' their way into prime positions near windows and doors, there were papou's 'muscling' in to set up their souvlaki stands complete with barbeques alongside of the church to cater for the hungry church-going masses- and further up the street there were stands with home-made yia yia's kourumbethes, sweets and of course bread.
By 11am the crowds flocked - and rightly so - who wouldn't go to church when you can purchase lunch at the same time - the queues both in the church for communion rivaled that for the souvlaki stands outside. I'm not just talking buy one souvlaki to eat now as a reward for good Sunday behaviour, instead church folk were buying enough to take home and feed the whole family complete with bread rolls/ packets of pita to match!!
And now wait for it - the priests came outside with the collection plates, down the stairs, (yes the crowd parted) through the queues and up the souvlaki line - 'if you've got money for souvlaki- you've certainly got money for the church plate-and who's going to argue with the serious bearded men in black? The great merger- win, win for everyone!
Imagine the delicious tags for the barbeque kings and their sharing of favourite sites - any computer, any time? the best way to cook souvlaki? the use of homegrown lemons and oregano from the garden vs supermarket- check out my similar interests - greek dancing, bazooki music, ERT greek channel and best tips for growing tomatoes in the front garden...priceless....
In the classroom, delicious (it's a bookmarking site) would be great for students to use to share favourite sites especially when researching. We all know it takes time to trawl and find student friendly sites using appropriate language and if the teacher can start this off using specific tags and the students can then share with each other- a great collaborative way to research and share resources. The students still have to synthesize the information and structure their writing to match requested criteria.
Similarly from a teaching perspective, we share ideas, books, DVD's, workshop notes etc so now with the increased use of internet sites to assist in lesson preparation to engage and challenge students- this is another way to share resources with colleagues and vise versa and save time doing it!
Don't forget you can always tag a few 'fav' recipe sites- remember the great merger- who can work on an empty stomach?
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