I have a computer at my office, a computer at home and a laptop for everywhere else. I need to get to the Internet from each computer. Many of the places I visit are the same every day… online email, check classes, news, weather, Dilbert.
As I read the news (mostly blogs about educational technology), I find interesting sites I want to remember. Most people bookmark new sites. For me, that doesn’t work. There is only a one in three chance I’ll be using this computer the next time I want the URL. This is why I use del.icio.us. I can store all my bookmarks there and be able to access them from any computer. Setup an account. It’s free.
Here are my person bookmarks that I share with the public.
When I login, I get all my non-public bookmarks.
Each time I speak at the eTech Ohio Conference, I post all the bookmarks with a special tag. Here are last year’s links.
http://del.icio.us/tag/etechohio07
Tagging permits the grouping of links based on descriptive words of your choosing. You can manage your own links with tags or check links other people have found. I have started to tag “educational court case” articles I read with the “edulaw” tag.
Using a site like del.icio.us makes it easy for me to move from computer to computer and always have my personal bookmarks.
There are other ways of accomplishing the same thing. If you use Firefox, there is an extension called Google Browser Sync. Start by setting up a Google account. Then install this Firefox extension on each computer you use. Each time you start Firefox, it will check to see if your bookmarks have been changed and update the current computer.
With del.icio.us there is no software to install. You can get to your bookmarks from any computer in the world. It’s one of those things I use every time I use the Internet.
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