Kollate

Kollate is a new (beta) site I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog.  Kollate is a Google Chrome extension that lets users bookmark websites w/ a beautiful visual interface.  Besides bookmarking websites a user can organize, annotate, tag, and more on a tab in their browser.

I highly recommend checking out Kollate by clicking here!!!

Annotary

Annotary is a nice site for bookmarking websites, annotating on them, and then sharing w/ others.  This is all done through a very user friendly interface and allows users to browse other's collections as well.

I recommend checking out Annotary by clicking here!!

Shared Copy

Shared Copy is a wonderful bookmarklet that can be installed in most browsers for bookmarking & annotating websites.  Also, a user can share these pages through: social networks, email, and more.

I recommend checking out Shared Copy by clicking here!

For my top 10 sites for bookmarking and annotating webpages click here.

Thanks to Richard Byrne's blog for the tip.

Hopper

Hopper is a new web tool designed to let users save anything fast and easily.  This is done by installing a bookymarklet (similar to Diigo) and then clicking on Save to Hopper on any website that you want to bookmark.  Also, a user can just copy and paste a URL, text, or image right into Hopper from their webpage.  Another nice feature is the ability to make a URL private or shorten when managing information from your Hopper account.

I recommend checking out Hopper by clicking here!!

For my top 10 sites for bookmarking click here.

Shelfster

Shelfster is a new (beta) site that I just found out about from the award winning, Free Technology 4 Teachers.  I like to think of this site as a cross between a social bookmarking site and a paper writing site.  It allows a user to bookmark and annotate any websites they like.  However, it also allows a user to create a document and then edit it by dragging/dropping bookmarks.  A finished product can be saved online or exported to PDF.  There are also some nice features soon to come such as the ability to publish to favorite social networking sites and export to Google Docs.

I highly recommend checking out Shelfster by clicking here!!!

For my top 10 sites for bookmarking/annotating websites click here.

Skloog

Skloog is a new (beta) site for bookmarking sites in a visual way. This is done by creating thumbnails of a users site and then being able to tag them and arrange them in anyway. Also, a user browse lists created on Skloog.

I recommend checking Skloog out by clicking here!!

For my top 10 sites on bookmarking click here.

Speedtile

Speedtile is a nice little site for collecting and managing bookmarks. This is done in a nice visual way of the thumbnails and looks a little bit like the start page of Chrome or Safari.

I recommend checking out Speedtile by clicking here.

For my top 10 sites for social bookmarking click here.

Instapaper

Instapaper is a cool site for bookmarking that I found out about on Twitter from the wonderful education consultant, Naomi Harm. After signing up a user installs via drag-n-drop a bookmarklet into their browser toolbar. Then after finding a site that you want to read later just click on the button. This also works well for using on a variety of mobile devices.

I highly recommend checking out Instapaper by clicking here!!

Bumpzee

Bumpzee is a site I just found out about from the wonderful professional guru, Kimberly Wright. Bumpzee is a site that is very similar to Skloog and SpeedyMarks that allows people to share their and organize bookmarks in a visual way. However, I'm not sure how appropriate this site would be for students due to some of the content, but it should be ok for teachers to use among themselves.

For looking for a better educational solution I would suggest Diigo for social bookmarking.

Click here to give Bumpzee a try.

Top 10 Sites for Bookmarking and Annotating

Annotation is a summary made of information in a book, document, online record, video, software code or other information, "in the margin", or perhaps just underlined or highlighted passages (wikipedia). This is a very useful skill or tool to have that goes along w/ bookmarking, when it comes to managing information the web.

Top 10 sites for Bookmarking & Annotating

1. Diigo - Excellent site for bookmarking and annotating w/ the ability to create student accounts, simply the best!!
   
2. Delicioius - Probably the most popular bookmarking site on the web w/ lots of educators to be found!!
   
3. iCyte - Similar to Diigo w/ the ability to annotate and then share or embed into a site.
   
4. Rooh.It - A great way to highlight content on the web and then share w/ others and add comments!
   
5. Digg - A popular way to bookmark w/ the ability to share w/ others, comment, and even generate a widget for a website.
   
6. Trailmeme - An innovative site w/ a beautiful user interface for annotating web content and generating a unique user interface/path to follow.
   
7. Jog the Web - Similar to Trailmeme and very user friendly (nice Web 2.0 jogs to follow!!).
   
8. Pinboard - A very simple site to bookmark w/out all of the clutter that some of the more popular sites have. Also, works well w/ mobile devices!!
   
9. School Noodle - A great way for teachers to bookmarks sites and then share these resources w/ other educators!!
   
10. Krunchd - A nice way to take a collection of sites and create one unique URL for all of them.
    

iCyte

iCyte is a wonderful site for bookmarking and annotating web sites. Also, a user can save a site that is no longer active on the web, comment on them, and then send it to others or embed in their site.

I highly recommend giving iCyte a try by clicking here!!

For an ambitious project on 21st Century learning on iCyte, I suggest checking out Duma Lucian's, Free Project in the Clouds for Teachers around the World.

Skloog

Skloog is a fun site for bookmarking that I just found out about from Zarco English, one of my favorite blogs. I like to compare Skloog to SpeedyMarks which organizes bookmarks via nice visual thumbnail of the site. This is very similar to how the start-up page for Safari or Chrome works for a user's history.



Give Skloog a try by clicking here.

SpeedyMarks

SpeedyMarks is a visual bookmarking site. It is very similar to the default start-up page in Safari 4.0. The way this works is by storing a "cookie" on your browser (oooh I like cookies).

I recommend checking out SpeedyMarks if you are a visual person who rather browse through pictures of thumbnails the URL links.

Click here for more info.



A special thank you to Ozge Karaoglu for the tip!!

Pinboard

Pinboard is a site for people who like to bookmark websites. However, this is anti-social bookmarking. Think of this as the Bizarro Del.icio.us. It is a simple site for bookmarking your favorite sites online w/out all of the social networking hooplah!!

However, there is a one time registration fee which might deter people from using it. Although, there is a nice feature for exporting your existing bookmarks over.

Give Pinboard a try by clicking here.