Delicious
A great e-tool to start with is delicious.com. This is a social bookmarking tool that I use to share my bookmarks with my students.
Watch this video and learn more:
How to start:
- signup for your free account
- import your bookmarks from your home and work computer/s
- install the bookmarking buttons into your browser. It is not necessary but it makes bookmarking a lot easier
(if you are at Fanshawe College you will have to ask the help desk folks to do it for you. You need administrative rights). - add tags and comments to your bookmarks
Comments and Tags
Comments help you remember what the site is about.
Tags help you organize your bookmarks.
This video gives a good explanation of tags:
Give it a try. Share your experiences by commenting on this blog post
I really like Delicious as a tool – it gets around that frustrating problem of wanting to access a website at the College, but the site was bookmarked on your home computer.
Only problem with Delicious is that is is tempting to cruise around websites for far longer than you initially planned!
I hear you
I often find sites that look interesting but I don’t have time to read them.
I think a good strategy would be to use a tag (like “return”) and then when I have time to waste (ha, ha, ha), use that tag to return and investigate the site deeper.