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iBreadcrumbs.com is a wonderful, free and useful resource tool that I have learned about recently and found very useful during my graduate courses. By doing so, I can see the benefits of using it in the classroom as well.
iBreadcrumbs is a downloadable toolbar that acts as a recorder for the webpages you visit. This tool then allows you to annotate the pages and share your research with others via any web browser. As a graduate student, I appreciate the ease of the tool and the wonderful idea of being able to review someone’s else’s research “breadcrumb” rather than starting from scratch. With this being a recording toolbar for your web browser and allowing users to save, review, and share research, it is a timesaving organizational tool as well. Several of my colleagues and I have put this tool to the test while collaborating on a grant we are writing. It is so amazing. We each took a section of the grant to research and by using the ibreadcrumb tool, were able to save and share in hours what would have normally took us days, even weeks to do.
Using it in the classroom to reference websites for studying and for group research projects are just a few of the ways to use it in the classroom environment. Students could also develop evaluating skills by reviewing and commenting on shared “breadcrumbs”. Networking, collaboration, creating databases of web resources and the ability for RSS subscriptions for updates are additional uses as well.
Robyn, I would love to hear how you think this compares to delicious. Thanks for sharing this!
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