LiveBinders.com
If you are a Type-A organization nut like me, you'll love LiveBinder. Not only can I virtually store my resources in tidy little organized virtual binders (I can even put topic-appropriate images on their front covers!), but I can just give the url of the binder to my students, instead of a list of sites to visit. Students can then click on the tabs in the binder to visit the sites I've stored there. This has been a great resource for units, since I can preview a list of research sites and then feel comfortable with allowing my students to access those sites independently. I even have a "LiveBinder It" icon at the top of my internet browser, so that I can just "drop" websites into the appropriate binder if I find something great! One other feature is that you can choose whether you'd like your binders to be "searchable" by other users - they can't change anything in your binder, but they could copy tabs as resources.
Sqworl.com (I'm not even going to tell you how long I spent sounding that out. Just FYI, the answer is "squirrel")
This site lets you share multiple links in one url - a great strategy for sharing sites with students.
I don't personally use this site, but I've had several other educators tell me that it is great for YouTube video links!
PortaPortal.com
You know what my students call this, right? PortaPotty, of course!
However, we use this site almost every day. It's a place to warehouse site links, organized into "folders". I like that you can open each folder and have sub-folders - within my "math" folder, I have an "area and perimeter" folder and a "multiplication games" folder, etc.
This site also lets you search other users' folders, which is a great, fast resource for new sites!
If you are a Type-A organization nut like me, you'll love LiveBinder. Not only can I virtually store my resources in tidy little organized virtual binders (I can even put topic-appropriate images on their front covers!), but I can just give the url of the binder to my students, instead of a list of sites to visit. Students can then click on the tabs in the binder to visit the sites I've stored there. This has been a great resource for units, since I can preview a list of research sites and then feel comfortable with allowing my students to access those sites independently. I even have a "LiveBinder It" icon at the top of my internet browser, so that I can just "drop" websites into the appropriate binder if I find something great! One other feature is that you can choose whether you'd like your binders to be "searchable" by other users - they can't change anything in your binder, but they could copy tabs as resources.
Sqworl.com (I'm not even going to tell you how long I spent sounding that out. Just FYI, the answer is "squirrel")
This site lets you share multiple links in one url - a great strategy for sharing sites with students.
I don't personally use this site, but I've had several other educators tell me that it is great for YouTube video links!
PortaPortal.com
You know what my students call this, right? PortaPotty, of course!
However, we use this site almost every day. It's a place to warehouse site links, organized into "folders". I like that you can open each folder and have sub-folders - within my "math" folder, I have an "area and perimeter" folder and a "multiplication games" folder, etc.
This site also lets you search other users' folders, which is a great, fast resource for new sites!