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I think that maintaining a social bookmarking repository (like Diigo or Delicious) is really important for students (and staff of course!). It’s clearly a much more efficient and effective way of managing the useful information, ideas and resources you find on the web, than just using favourites. And that’s before you start to exploit the social and collaborative features.
That said, I’ve been trying to find an entry level approach to these tools which students can start straight away, don’t need to register and using a tool with which they’re familiar. I’d like students to simply email their links to a bookmarking service which has a group account (could be at teaching group, year group, subject area or whole school levels). In addition to begining to understand the principle of social bookmarking, they would also begin to recognise the power of crowdsourcing, creating a fantastic resource for all from minimal effort on the individual’s part.
Depsite efforts so far, including those of @JohnAHobson, @4goggas, @chilledteaching and @stuartridout (Thanks folks!), no joy as yet. Apart from Delicious and Diigo, Google Bookmarks, Evernote and ifttt were suggested, but unfortunately none of them appear to have the facility to receive incoming emails (with the exception of Evernote which doesn’t work quite like a bookmarking service.
It’s back to the drawing board then (and the search engines), so do feel free drop a comment if you know of anything which fits the bill.
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