Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Quick way to share bunches of links with students

Like me, I bet you find it annoying when teaching and you ask your students to go to one website, and then to another and then another.  Inherently there are issues with typos and backslashes, etc.  How about if you have a teacher website or blog post and you have to list 5 links for people to visit?  This takes up a lot of real estate and usually people get tired of clicking on all your links.  

Well, there is a solution to both these problems as there is a new service out there that allows you to bundle links together.



Bundlenut is a simple service for organizing links and sharing them with others.  Here is the bundled link I created for Medfield Technology Support.  Creating your own bundle is simple and takes seconds.

How to use in Education:

  • Anytime you have the laptop cart and are going to send students to multiple websites during a class, it would make sense to bundle your links.  
  • If you were having students do a research paper and you want to allow them to only use specific resources, you could provide that list to them in a bundle.  
  • Students could use this to create a works cited page (with all their research links) and could provide that to you with one url, rather than a laundry list of urls.  
  • If you ever present at a conference, you could post all the links you talk about in one bundle and then participants would only need to know the one bundled link.

Make sure to let me know how you end up using this in your class!

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