Get It Together!

I found a great article online, "100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Ideas and Thoughts." One of the pages in your reading this week talks about browsers and bookmarks.

I use Del.icio.us and Diigo (which isn't mentioned in the bookmarking section but farther down in another section of the list. It has a teacher console that would allow us all to share our bookmarks for this class--and in a future class, I'm definitely going to use that. Also, as you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, you can highlight portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you. You can also attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.)

Whether you are doing online research or like to keep your Internet hobbies organized, these bookmarking tools will help you keep everything in order and easy to find.

15. Del.icio.us. This popular bookmarking site allows you to save favorite sites, add notes to yourself that you can also share with others, and browse other peoples’ bookmarks to find similar content.
16. Reddit. Not only can you bookmark your favorite sites here, but users can vote on sites and watch whether they are going up or down in popularity.
17. Digg. Users can vote and comment on their favorite (or not so favorite) sites here, or you can just easily bookmark your favorites.
18. StumbleUpon. Part bookmarking site and part highly-customizable search engine, StumbleUpon offers sites that meet your selected criteria that you can choose to bookmark or not.
19. PurpleBunny. Bookmark, comment on sites, share with others, read what other users have to say, and even discuss web sites.
20. Fleck. Keep all your bookmarks in one place and share with friends. Choose between Original or Lite–which provides shortened urls for sharing on Twitter.
21. Snip!t. Snip sections of webpages you want to remember and add them to your bookmarks. You can even make notes on them.
22. Digital Notes. Download this open source software to access social bookmarking where you and your friends can discuss websites on a shared note.
23. Clipmarks. With this bookmarking tool you can select a portion of a webpage–including text, video, or image–and save it.
24. iFaves. Get your bookmarks organized by the ones you most visited or tags you assign so that you never lose track of those important bookmarks again.
25. Tip’d Financial News. Like Digg, but for personal finance and investing topics.

Looking over the complete list, I use at LEAST one of the tools listed in every section every single day! These tools have definitely made me more organized and more productive. Check out a few of these newer webtools. They will help while you're in college--and down your professional road as well!

Two others not mentioned at all that I like because they are so visual are:

• Only2Cicks (I recommend for elementary) Creates thumbnails of frequently-used, bookmarked sites; sort by category, drag and drop; share.
• MiddleSpot (for upper elementary and secondary) Search, zoom and pan on screenshots of your results, collect and store your results on a personal "workpad," share your workpad.
• Tizmos (for secondary and teachers) A personalized homepage that allows you to see thumbnails of your favorite sites (tizmos) all in one place. You can add, edit, and delete Tizmos on your page