Friday 12 December 2014

Social Bookmarking with Nkwiry

There are a few social bookmarking tools out there.  I’ve used, presented, and written about DIIGO and Delicious.  DIIGO is the one I am currently using as a web based bookmarking platform personally. It’s beauty is that I can access my bookmarks on any device or computer and save new links to DIIGO from any device  I happen to be on.  I can tag them with as many tags (course code, topic, type of resource…) as I want so I can find the bookmark again when I need it.  I have also been part of groups that have used it to share resources for a project, but I have not successfully used it with a class.

There is a new social bookmarking site/application I’d like to share with you.  It’s called nkwiry and it was developed by Brian Aspinall, a self professed “Dork. Teacher. Blogger. Presenter.” from Ontario (@mraspinall on twitter).

Because I haven’t used it (yet), I’m not sure what to tell you about it that doesn’t come directly from the website.  So here’s the website’s sales pitch:

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And finally, a testimonial from an educator: “Not only has nkwiry empowered my students to curate the web for the best content and gather weblinks based on specific topics, we now have a safe and secure way to showcase student work from other sources.  Since it is a bookmark sharing platform, I can collect links of student work from other sources like Prezi and Bitstrips and keep them all in one spot!”

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You can see more comments from teachers using nkwiry by checking out @nkwiry on twitter.  You don’t have to have a twitter account to see the tweets/retweets (just click on the link).

If this sounds interesting to you and is something you try with a class, I’d love to hear about your experiences with nkwiry.  Please share!