online+bookmarks

=Online bookmarks= Now that you have a list of favorite Web sites, and you have made sure they are appropriate and relevant, how do you organize them for your learners easy access? Here are some ways educators share their favorite Web sites with their students:


 * Handout with the list of Web site names and links
 * Web site with links
 * Blog with links
 * Wiki with links
 * Social-bookmarking account with links

For the first four choices please refer to OTAN’s Web site. At the bottom of the home page, click on the [|Training] tab link where you can learn more about the face-to-face and online workshops OTAN offers on these topics.

In this handout we will cover social bookmarking. There are a number of services that allow you to create an account and save your bookmarks on their Web site. This enables you to access your favorites from any computer connected to the Internet. Instead of saving them in folders, you use tags to describe what your Web site is about. You can use one or many tags for one Web site. At a later time these tags help you search for the Web site in your list. The bookmarks you save in such a service will be public, unless you mark them as private. Your students can easily access your favorite Web sites when you give them the address of your social bookmarking account. You could also assign tags as dates, so that you can have your students look at the Web sites related to the topic you are covering that day or week or month.

Some of the most popular services are

Delicious –www.delicious.com or www.del.icio.us

Diigo – www.diigo.com

Furl - www.furl.net

And many more … @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software

@http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=196604260

The following is a video by [|Common Craft] explaining the concept of social bookmarking media type="custom" key="2999804" @http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever Social Bookmarking in Plain English

The following is a 10 minute video tutorial about using Delicious by [|youngmath] media type="custom" key="3002120"

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcgloI3Zw4Y