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 When you present your lesson to your students and need to share a link, you could give them a shortened URL or have the log in to a social bookmarking site like Diigo, but instead all you will have to do is create a bookmark on your browser.  The bookmark will sync with all of the other computers in the lab tied to that class account. You could even do this on the fly in the middle of class (the students might need to hide and then show the bookmarks bar to refresh it). Even better, you could have one student share a link quickly with the rest of the class.  If you wanted to take it to the next level, set up bookmark folders for different units/subjects, classes, or even students.  This is social bookmarking without the extra log in for our students.

This blog is about teaching Digital Literacy at Journey School, a progressive public charter school in Aliso Viejo, CA, that utilizes Waldorf teaching methods. The administrator and teacher at Journey agreed to turn a weekly civics class into CyberCivics, so that students enter cyberspace as well-prepared digital citizens. This is their journey!