Barbara Taylor's List: Social Bookmarking

Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking service. You can have multiple pages that Symbaloo calls webmixes that are grids of tiles - you add tiles that go to websites you want to bookmark. Symbaloo is visually appealing and you could use it as the dashboard to give easy access to frequently used sites.

This is a webmix in Symbaloo that links to tutorials on how to use Symbaloo. It is a great way improve your Symbaloo skills - just look for topic you need. Add the Tuesday Tutorial webmix to your Symbaloo to receive the updates.

Tuesday Tutorial posts from Symbaloo edu blog - same content as available from above webmix - just goes directly to archived posts instead of via webmix. "Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills."

Sybaloo Start Simple channel on YouTube. Scroll through the list of videos for tutorials on all aspects of using Symbaloo as well as educator spotlights that feature educators and how they are using Symbaloo.

"Thursday Did you know" posts from Symbaloo edu blog. Great weekly tips on using Symbaloo edu

Allows creation of binders that resemble 3-ring notebook/binders with resources organized by tabs inside each binder. Also a GREAT place to look for resources assembled in binders other educators have already created.

"Participate Learning delivers thousands of apps, videos and websites - professionally vetted by expert teachers - that are searchable by keyword, category or Common Core State Standard. Additionally, any teacher can create and share Collections of their own favorite apps, videos, websites, or files (either web-based or uploaded) around a specific subject or lesson plan."

Delicious has been around a long time as a social bookmarking service and thus is used by many resulting in a large collaborative community connected by tags. Delicious, unlike Diigo, does not have a way to create lists.

Diigo provides "social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration." In addition to bookmarking and accessing bookmarks from anywhere, you can annotate webpages with highlights & sticky notes. One thing I always loved about Diigo was the ability to organize bookmarks into lists and share a link with someone directly to a specific list in your library of links. However in December 2014, Diigo eliminated the list feature and replaced it with outliners and limits the number of outliners you can create for free (there was no limit on lists). Free upgrades are available to educators for "special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators." Once upgraded, you can create accounts for an entire class (no student emails required). Users in a class are automatically in a Diigo group and can collaborate, and "privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them." The number of allowed outliners also is greater with the upgrade. If you like outliners and find them a useful way to organize links for you and your students or colleagues, go for it. Don't be influenced by my frustration about lists going away.

Use this page to apply for an educator upgrade to extend your free plan privileges without having to pay for a paid plan.

Good collection of resources about using Diigo - check links on left to easy-to-read overviews, classroom ideas (lesson plans, training videos), and other resources. Start with Diigo 101 and Social Bookmarking and Diigo. From the About link, you see that this website (Google site) was created by a group of graduate students for a course, but they appear to have done a great job!