So many options so little time... These tools address organizing sources in many formats, such as notes, documents, RSS feeds, websites, images and sometimes audio (see Evernote) and video.
They are all useful, and each does "it" a little differently than the rest
All can be used with classes for projects, curating and sharing of resources
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Symbaloo is a personal startpage that allows you to easily navigate the web and compile your favorite site all in to one visual interface. Save your bookmarks in the cloud and access them from anywhere with any device.
Netvibes is simlar to Symbaloo in that it is a dashboard that works as a bookmarking tool. It also serves as a news aggregator and offers the ability to personalize your browser homepage to include many widgets and RSS feeds. Plus you can add tabbed pages (kind of like this box) so that you can organize content with multiple pages.
Use Diigo with your students (with a free teacher account) or for personal use. Note that while the video specifies a bookmarklet for Chrome browser users, Diigo has bookmarlets for Safari and Firefox browsers as well.
This is Diigo's About page
This is Diigo's Tool Page where you can download extensions and bookmarklet apps.
Evernote is a combination bookmarking, journaling, storage for documents, pdfs, images and audio files, that can be used with a class project or individually.
Contact Suzanne Feldberg for one-on-one assistance.
Twitter's mission is... "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers".
From the Twitter FAQ page: Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. It's an easy way to discover the latest news related to subjects you care about. Messages from users you choose to follow will show up on your home page for you to read. It’s like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines you’ll always find interesting – you can discover news as it’s happening, learn more about topics that are important to you, and get the inside scoop in real time.
Academically, students or faculty can set up Twitter feeds on topics of study/interest and have students follow and post to the Twitter feed, using it as an organizational, sharing and curation tool.
Livebinders are one of the best replacements for a 3-ring binder. Physical 3-ring binders used to be the easiest way to organize all your educational resources. But now so much of what you want to organize is online. LiveBinders not only replaces the old 3-ring binder, but also opens up new opportunities for collaborating, organizing, and sharing that were never possible before. Visit the Knowledge Sharing page for examples of collaboration and curation using Livebinders.
The Education page has several ideas for ways to use livebinders in a classroom setting.
Using Livebinders as ePortfolios are explained on this page along with examples.
Step-by-step instructions on creating your first Livebinder
Pearltrees is a visual, collaborative bookmark tool that can be used to organize web pages, files, photos and notes into "pearls" or groups, and share them easily.
Pearltrees site: To create an account
Pearltrees FAQ: All of your questions answered
Pinterest is a visual bookmark tool that can be used with group projects where information from the Internet is being collected and shared.
Pinterest is being used in the library. If you would like some help with getting started with Pinterest contact Suzanne Feldberg.
Flickr is an application you can use to store and share photos.
Looking for open copyright images for classes? Try Flickr Commons a collabortive image project.
Watch the tutorial video below to learn how you and your students can upload photos to create your own collections.
Linoit is a great way to organize notes. The interface looks like a bulletin board (you can change the background image) and the idea is to post sticky notes to the board. You can make as many boards as you like, post notes, images, almost anything you and your students want to share.
The FAQ offers a visual of the parts of a linoit board.
The How-To-Linoit page offers step-by-step instructions creating a Lino board.
How to use linoit safely instructions can be found here.
Padlet is a wall-building application. You can post multiple item on a wal, (imaes, notes, links, etc.) and share them privately or publicly.
Use the Padlet FAQ to answer basic questions on what you can do with Padlet, and Padlet Walls for everything you wanted to know about creating your first Padlet.