Delicious is an excellent tool for practicing Self-Awareness, Flexibility and Organization and Reading. Try some of the ideas below, or submit your own in the comment field at the bottom of the page.

Self-Awareness Activity

Have your child brainstorm a list of topics that interest her. You can make suggestions based on what you know about your child or suggest things that you both might be interested in learning more about. Once you have a list of at least 10 items, have your child search for Delicious pages dedicated to those topics where he can find lists of links to explore. Make sure to ask him what he found, what was most interesting, and why these topics fascinate him so much.

Flexibility Activity

Challenge your child to learn something new. Create a list of 5 topics you think your child knows nothing about, like space travel or a foreign village. Have her pick at least one which she'd like to learn more about, then she can do so by searching for links and reading simple articles. The goal is to teach your child to explore unfamiliar topics with an open mind.

Organization Activity

Have your child organize his links by giving them tags that will make searching for them easier. He could also create folders based on the topic of the links that he is saving. As he searches, your child should tag and sort each link that he saves. Practice together for the first few searches, and you can discuss out loud why each tag is helpful and why each link belongs in a certain folder.

Reading Activity

Send your child links to articles that are slightly above his reading level. If he gets stuck, read the articles together and try to have him summarize the content in his own words. Do this over the course of a few weeks, and make sure to discuss the topics afterwards to gauge his interest and ensure the reading was completed.

Delicious & ADHD

Children with ADHD often need help to become more organized. Delicious is a great tool for organizing online behavior. As a social bookmarking service, Delicious helps children with ADHD store and organize their bookmarks with tags. Children can add multiple tags to each bookmark, allowing for maximum searchability and organization. The service is highly social, allowing children the opportunity to exercise both their Organization and Self-Awareness skills. Children can share their bookmarked sites with other Delicious users, allowing children to transfer information sources easily.

How to Use Delicious for Children with ADHD

• Children with ADHD should develop of system of tagging bookmarked sites that makes it easiest for retrieval. Children should use a variety of broad and strict categories when labeling their tags to maximize their search-ability  For example, a highlight video of a football play should be tagged, "video," "sports," and "football." Further specificity is encouraged, but the three terms above, provide enough information for users to recover the web page with ease.

• Delicious is very social in nature. Not only can children share their bookmarks, they are also able to see how many other have bookmarked the pages, allowing them to gauge the popularity of their own choices. Children can explore trending sites, memes, and topics using the "hotlist" feature. The "stacks" function allows children to group together lists of subject related web pages - making them searchable for other users. Delicious is a collective service that can to bring people together based on subject matter of their bookmarks.

Below are some popular alternative social bookmarking tools with similar features to Delicious.

Digg

One of the biggest social bookmarking sites around, it features a “digg” button that users can press next to links they like. The more “diggs” a link gets, the more prominently it is displayed on the front page.

Diigo

Diigo is a web tool that allows users to highlight, annotate, and place sticky notes directly on web pages as you browse. In addition, Diigo keeps a bookmarked list of all edited webpages that can be categorized and organized.