Bookmarking web pages allows users to quickly return to frequently visited pages, save favorite websites for future reference, and share websites with others. The document discusses using Chrome bookmarks, Diigo, Evernote, and Pocket to save pages, and StumbleUpon to discover and share new pages. Social bookmarking tools allow users to organize bookmarked pages and describe page contents.

1. Element 2
Bookmark web resources to develop language skills
Find. Save. Share.

2. Why bookmark?
 To quickly return to frequently visited pages
 To save your favorite websites
 To read websites later
 Also, social bookmarking (through specialized tools or websites) can be used
to share websites with other people, or discover new websites you might like*
 Let’s go over each of these one by one
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3. To quickly return to frequently visited
webpages
 Some ideas:
 You can use Chrome’s own bookmarks bar
 Simply click on the star at the right in the omnibar
 Remember that you can synchronize your bookmarks across al the computers in
which you can use Chrome
 An example:
 http://educacionvirtual.uta.edu.ec

4. To save your favorite websites
 In this case, you are not only interested in going back to a webpage, but
actually organizing all the different sites in categories AND describing what
those sites are about
 Additionally, you may critically analyze the content of the webpage, and
actually do more stuff with it
 We’ll review two different web services that allow you to do this:
 Evernote
 Diigo
 Both services have their own use case scenarios
 Let’s create an account in Diigo and have a look around the service
 We’ll get back to Diigo once we have pages to save or comment on

5. To read websites later
 Many times it happens on the web that you can’t read or spend time on a
website because you’re busy or focused on something else
 In those times it is useful to have a service that allows us to save stuff to read
it later
 You can use Pocket for this
 www.getpocket.com
 Let’s create an account and have a look around the service

6. But wait, there’s more!
 Ok, so you know how to save information
 All you need now is information to save
 How do you find resources on the web
 It’s so big, you can easily get lost
 Enter stumbleupon
 www.stumbleupon.com
 So, let’s find stuf, save it and share it
 You can share it via e-mail, twitter or facebook