Bookmarking-Rachel+Line

Bookmarking

I am assuming that most people know how to bookmark webpages. I love bookmarking because then I never have to type in web addresses, and it makes navigating my favorite sites so much faster. Bookmarklets are special bookmarks that you can add to your browser's bookmarks toolbar. You can put your favorite bookmarks in the toolbar so that they are more readily accessable. I have tons of sites bookmarked, but then I run into problems when I'm not on my personal computer. I hate not having quick links to my favorite sites, or even sites which I might not use very often but want to access from another computer. Enter social bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites such as delicious.com allow you to save your bookmarks on your personal delicious site so you can access them anywhere simply by logging into your delicious account.

An obvious use of this application is to share great bookmarks with other teachers. You can create groups and share great sites you find with your friends. You could also share bookmarks with your classes for activities or projects.

I have a delicious account and love it. It's also fun in that the bookmarks can be **tagged and tracked**. You can see how and how many other people tagged your same link, and you can look up other links with the same tag you chose. So in teaching, you might tag something as "funny, ESL, phonology" and then by **searching the tags discover another similar link** you hadn't known existed!

Other ideas: (Elizabeth Stutzman) Another similar site is diigo.com, and it allows you to save an image of a webpage so that you never lose it when websites shut down or move for whatever reason. In addition, there are post-it and highlighter tools that allow you to point out key information on the site. You can set up an educator account which allows you and your class to share with one another and it only has education related ads.

My idea- Veronica Huver When I have students working in groups on research assignments, there is always that one kid who says they will hold the work and bring it back each day, but ends up forgetting it. Students researching in groups could bookmark the location of their articles in one site that is accessible to all of them wether they are at school or else where. THey could also label their topics in an organized manner - food, holidays, weather, etc.