I recently reviewed the website Delicious.com which is a bookmark archival and sharing tool. Delicious.com allows you to upload your favorite bookmarks from whatever browser you use, so you can access them in the cloud. Additionally, you can share these links to anyone you wish via email. The website is organized as a community, which means you can browse and search for other bookmarks through Delicious.com users on the network. One other nice feature is that you can download a plugin for you browser in order to keep you bookmarks synced up.
Using this tool in the classroom would allow you to pre-load certain websites at home so you can access them later on any computer in the school.
However, I prefer Xmarks.com. It has the same basic functions, with the added features of allowing you to sync your bookmarks across all the browsers you use, and if you have a class blog you can show the important links in either your postings or as part of the site itself. I've shown an example of imbedding your links as part of your site in this blog (see right). Also I prefer the general layout and visualization of the bookmarks as opposed to Delicious.com's.
John, don't forget to include your DEFINITION OF WEB2.0, etc (task 1 in this particular lesson.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comparison of products ... and the demo.