One of the ways to keep track of all of the great things you can learn on the Internet is to bookmark the links. There are a number of places to store these. Google chrome keeps them for you and you can access them from any computer by signing into your account. Delicious and Diigo are sites that allow you to keep your bookmarks organized, while sharing these bookmarks with others. Social bookmarking is really helpful for Professional Learning Networks, new ideas are available everyday and social bookmarking allows you to sift through ones your peers al ready think may be useful. I am a fan of Pinterest. This is a more visually dependent version of social bookmarking. You make themed boards that you can choose to make public or not. They are searchable, comment enabled, and based on images from the blogs people you follow have read and pinned. I have several different teaching boards I have curated that correlate to different courses or teaching interests I have. That being said, I have several related to cooking, decorating, and yoga, not just teaching. Many of my favorite blogs actually have Pinterest pages of their own that have introduced me to other bloggers and their ideas. This an example of one of my teaching pages on Pinterest.
Another option for social bookmarking that is very different from the others I have discussed is reddit. This site is full of almost anything you could ever want to know about. This is a mixture of a forum and social bookmarking. There are pages called sub-reddits that have a specific topic in mind and typically have rules about what can be posted and how comments are to be made. The front page is typically full of pop culture references and memes, but once you find a community that is active and posting on topics you care about an entire world of communication, information, and websites are now available. The most useful sub-reddits I have come across are Explain it to Me Like I’m Five, Ask Science, and Science. While these are not sites that I would use directly in the classroom, reddit is not always safe for the classroom, there are many useful posts made in these forums everyday.