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If you are familiar with Pinterest, Wakelet is similar to Pinterest in that you can create different collections in Wakelet the same way you can create different boards in Pinterest. However, with Wakelet, you can save anything you find on the internet from websites, to videos, PDFs. tweets, songs, and more. You can also take all of those resources and put them into a beautiful collection that is arranged to build stories through text, images, bookmarks, or other apps. Don’t think of Wakelet as just an online bookmarking site, think of Wakelet as a curation tool that you can use in your lesson planning to create different spaces and collections for your classes, your interests, and share those resources with others or let others curate your collection with you. Wakelet can benefit students at any level and can help you and your coworkers be more successful and productive.
If you are looking for a resource where you can access your online bookmarks on any device start using Wakelet today. It will change the way you start to gather links and curate those links into a powerful resource. It might also change the way you use your learning management system with students and how you share resources in your classroom.
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You can use the traditional side of Symbaloo and create a webmix of website links displayed like tiles on a grid. Set up links to various websites to give students a better historical reference as it relates to the novel or create a webmix with all the links you use in your class and share it out through your syllabus or LMS so students and parents would have a one-stop-shop to all your classroom digital resources. Within the webmix you could also group the links because each group and tile can be color-coded and placed anywhere within the grid to ease navigation. You can also search Symbaloo’s gallery of webmixes created by other users and add those to your webmix landing page.
With Learning Paths you can create customized paths students must walkthrough to learn about a certain topic. With Learning Paths, you curate all of the content from your files or from around the web and layout the information and questions in a start to finish pattern. There are infinite ways to lay the Learning Paths and they are great because they give students power and choice over their learning. There are analytics within the paths to help you get a sense of your student's understanding. Symbaloo has a marketplace where you can find other created Learning Paths and add them to your collection. The Learning Paths can be easily shared to Google Classroom or any other LMS through a link.
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This is easily one of my favorite new ed tech tools. There are two extensions to get you started. The Toby extension, when installed in your browser, will take over your new tab and open the Toby application every time you open a new tab. The Toby Mini extension only opens the application when you click on the extension and you can quickly save your tabs while you work. The Toby Mini extension is the one I like the best.
What makes the Toby application so great is, not only does it create collections of bookmarks, but when the application is open it will show you all of your open tabs. You can easily move those tabs into your created collections or create a whole new collection based on tabs you have open. You can also easily open all tabs in a collection at once by clicking Open Tabs.
If you want to organize your open tabs you can click on the Toby Mini extension and easily add tabs to a collection on the fly or quickly save your current session as a new session. Within the Toby website you can share your collection, easily organize your collections, add collections to your favorites, or add notes to collections for more clarification or description.
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Pocket and Instapaper are very similar social bookmarking apps. With the extensions installed in your browser you can easily save a website for later viewing and read it either online or offline. The apps are available as a desktop website or through a mobile app. There are extensions you can install in your browser to quickly save interesting articles. Within the apps, you can favorite articles and create notes from portions of the articles for review later. Finally, both sites have a discover feature. This feature will recommend articles based on your interests or what your friends are reading.
Some features of Pocket that set it apart are the tiled layout, added tags to your articles for a quicker search, more options to share articles through social media, and the discover tab has a more visually appealing layout.
Some features of Instapaper that set it apart are the ability to add a comment to your highlights, the saved article can be set up to speed read based on your comprehension speed, there are more font settings to make the screen more appealing, you can organize your articles by folders, and Instapaper has a bookmarklet that will transform your article into readable text and remove distracting ads or banners.
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Diigo is a standout digital bookmarking tool because it incorporates so many of the features of other digital bookmarking tools. Once you've installed the Chrome Extension you can easily save articles you've found on the internet, upload PDFs and images, and even archive dead pages with a premium subscription. From the extension, Diigo also lets you annotate on webpages and and leave notes about important connections made and easily share out those annotations. You have four colors to choose from in your annotations and notes. You can even make notes on your highlights, not just add a note separate from an annotation; combine the two for a more impactful read.
You can organize your saved resources with tags and lists and set those lists as public or private. However, the most powerful resource in Diigo is in its ability to create an outline of resources. Quickly take you links, annotations, and notes and generate them into an outline to find and associate information faster to your research or project.
Finally, if websites, PDFs, and images aren't enough you can simply add a stand-alone note into Diigo and tag it, share it, add it to an outline, or email it wherever you think it will be most effective. Diigo is available as a website, extension, and app so you can access it anywhere and anytime.
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Evernote is one of the most comprehensive notebook websites available. It doesn't do annotation as well as some of the other sites but it does just about everything else. From the web clipper, you can clip an article, strip the article to make it more simplified, bookmark just the link, or take a screenshot. From the web clipper, you can also add the clip to a notebook, put relevant tags on the clip, and add a remark about its importance.
Once you are actually in Evernote that's where the true power of the resource really shines. The homescreen is laid out by recent or suggested notes, a scratchpad, and recently captured web clips, images, documents, audio, and emails. With the premium version you can customize your home screen the way you'd like. From the sidebar, you can access shortcuts to your articles, notes, notebooks, and tags.
When you are in a note you have the ability to work with their rich text editor and insert a lot of different resources. You can insert an image, link, audio, sketch, attachment, table, checkboxes, something from Google Drive, an image, a divider, and a code block. Evernote also lets you add a reminder, start sketching, record audio, or scan a document right from the home screen. Finally, Evernote has pre-built templates to jumpstart your organization. The templates are meeting notes, to-do lists, a weekly planner, a project plan, lecture notes, an essay outline, a meal planner, and a daily reflection. However, to access some of the features you may need to upgrade to a premium plan.
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Raindrop.io is an all-in-one bookmark manager that is a joy to use. It has a clean, user-friendly interface that is fully customizable yet clean and modern. Raindrop.io organizes your bookmarks by collections and tags. If you upgrade to the paid version you can also filter out duplicates and broken links. With multiple views (list, headlines, grid, mood board) you can set things up the way you like. You can even transfer that layout and embed it into your website for others to enjoy.
Raindrop.io is available any way you search the web. You might think of it as a tradition Chrome extension, however, Raindrop.io is available as an extension in every major browser, as a downloadable program for Windows or Mac, and as an app for iPad, iPhone, and Android.
Finally, you can upload all common file types and organize them into collections, including PDFs, images, and videos. For more complex integration you can connect to other programs like IFTTT and Zapier. Besides making your collections public, you can also enable collaborative access to coworkers or family members. Raindrop.io is free but with the paid upgrade you can access more features like linking to Dropbox and Google Drive, nested collections, permanent backup copies of dead pages, and full text content search. Raindrop.io is a great bookmark manager for users at any level.
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