Wakelet - resource curating and sharing

 

Wakelet
Wakelet is an amazing website that allows users to curate and share online resources.  Think of it as a glorified bookmark organizer for your web browser with a collaborative twist.

With Wakelet, you can create online collections of bookmarks.  Each of these collections have their own web link that can be shared with others.  Online users, such as colleagues, parents, or students, can subscribe to your Wakelets.  As you add more resources, they instantly have access to them.  

Wakelet is a perfect way to organize a collection of resources for a specific class or a specific topic of study.  You can share the link of resources on Google Classroom.  You can even invite others to edit your Wakelet collections.  Departments can curate resources together!

There are communities of educators on Wakelet who freely share their resources.  You can start subscribing to their group collections to expand your Wakelet library.  

Wakelet is free.  You can sign in with Google.  You can even add a Wakelet extension to your Chrome profile, which makes it crazy easy to add resources to your saved collections as you browse the web.

If you're interested in following me, you can check out my profile at https://wakelet.com/@AndrewRobitaille2572. I currently have collections of great online resources, information literacy, and iPad tips and resources.



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