Technology for Teachers

In preparing for an upcoming workshop I was again reminded how diffifult it can become to organinze, maintain, and remember multiple websites. Now creating a bookmark on your machine will suffice for most, but what do you do when you have to travel or aren’t at the machine where the bookmark is?

Enter web-based bookmarking tools.

In the past I’ve used www.IKeepBookmarks.com and del.icio.us but now find myself using www.furl.net. I was a huge user of IKeepBookmarks until certain features stopped working (searching), some never came to fruition (dead-link checker), and tech support wasn’t up to par. I’ve also passed on del.icio.us for now as Furl allowed for folders and more organization, which I need. Who knows, maybe in a month I’ll be using another….

So why use online bookmarking tools? Simply put, they’re kept online. It doesn’t matter what machine you are at you have instant access to your bookmarked files.

I think social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us have the most promise but it may depend on your needs.

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