QUESTION: Alternative to ikeepbookmarks - Sites for students

[Kelly Farrow]

Hi!! We use ikeepbookmarks.com at my school to keep track of all our grade-level and subject-area bookmarks from year to year. Here's our page so you can see it. It's VERY basic, and I think they may be having some server issues based on the speed of loading we've experienced this year. I wonder how some of you keep your bookmarks and am especially interested in a visual way to display them to students/teachers. I'd like it to have the organization abilities and price (free!) of ikeepbookmarks ideally. (I've looked at Live Binders and am not really sold on that as a valid alternative... Too confusing for younger kids...)

 

I'd love your input!

[Lucy Gray]

I use Diigo for bookmarking. It allows you to annotate and highlight and you can bookmark directly to groups and lists. Diigo also offers student accounts.

 

Lucy Gray

[Sharanda Payseur]

Have you tried Symbaloo?  It's nifty and visual.

[Ynez Peterson]

 I liked it also because you can group or categorize by color and add visuals

[Susan Stephenson, the Book Chook]

I've started using ScoopIt for my personal attempt to curate some of the zillions of subjects i'm interested in. I like that it generates a tweet to share what I scoop, that it gives a visual and word description of the resource, and to a lesser extent, that it offers me suggestions for my topics. My profile is here. But it may not be as suitable to share with students. 

 

Julie Niles Petersen did a fantastic comparison of social bookmarking sites at TWRCTank.com

[Levin Tull]

We use Diigo at work - It lets you store your own, and share with groups.

[Kelly Farrow]

These are great suggestions!! I can't wait to dig in and try these out and learn more about them. Two I know (a little bit), but one is totally new to me! Thanks to each of you.

[Dana Huff]

As Lucy and Levin have said, Diigo is great for what you want to do. You can have a teacher account and create a student group that allows all members of the group to share bookmarks.

[Kim Davis]

Kelly,

We use PBWorks Wiki, sorted by grade level then subject. It is a great way to organize and keep up with projects!

brassfieldes.pbworks.com

 

We are an elementary school but you can see how it works.

Good luck!

Kim

[Elizabeth Simpson]

This doesn't sound like it exactly fits what you are trying to do, share, that is, but I have to mention it anyway.  I use XMarks, a Mozilla add-on, to keep track of my bookmarks.  I can sync my school desktop, laptop, and home desktop to all have the same bookmarks.  It also syncs up history.  We've all had that moment where we think, I was looking at the coolest thing at school yesterday, what was it?  With XMarks, the history can be accessed anywhere.  Very cool.

[Kelly Farrow]

I just heard Evernote is opening up to the ed market. Does anyone use it in K-12? What has been your experience? 

http://www.evernote.com/about/schools/resources/topics/k12/