Social Bookmarking
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Social bookmarking helps us save, organize, and manage the valuable learning we gain from our Personal Learning Networks (PLNs).
Recommended Free Web Tools and Apps
- Diigo is a web tool, iOS / Android app, and extension to annotate, curate, and bookmark resources found online. Diigo also allows students to annotate pdfs and tag their bookmarks.
- Pearltrees is a web tool, iOS / Android app, and extension to categorize, curate and visualize bookmarks. The bookmarks turn up as thumbnails on a board. Students can move them around and name their boards of thumbnails.
- Scoop.it is a web tool and extension to annotate, curate, and bookmark resources in a digital board.
- Google Keep is the web tool, extension, and app to annotate, curate and bookmark.
- Symbaloo is a web tool, extension and app which displays your bookmarks as icons.
- Livebinders is a web tool, iOS / Android app, and extension made for educators to place bookmarks as tabs in a digital notebook. Students can also make each tab look like a web page.
- Educlipper is a web tool, iOS app, and extension to annotate, curate, and bookmark resources. It looks a lot like Pinterest, but with many more features and made for educators. Educlipper is a great tool to use with young learners to adults and supports easy delivery of assignments and grading.
- Pinterest is a web tool, iOS / Android app, and extension to annotate, curate, and bookmark resources visually. I use this tool with my college language learners. Check out my students Pinterest boards of their digital portfolios here.
- Cube for Teachers is a new web tool I recently learned about. Teachers create a free profile to share a list of bookmarks with other teachers.
- List.ly is a web tool and extension to curate and bookmark resources. Users can vote and rank the bookmarks.
- Flipboard is a web tool, iOS app, and extension to curate bookmarks into a digital magazine.