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THIS WEEK IN DIGITAL LEARNING

Organize Your Research With Wakelet

Writer's picture: Melissa BrayallMelissa Brayall

We are constantly researching information online. Whether it is teachers hunting for lesson ideas or resources, students looking for articles or facts, or just regular people researching cars, washing machines, or sneakers...we all spend a lot of time searching online. What if there was a simple way to curate that information to organize it for whatever the next step may be (creating a lesson plan, writing a paper, buying a new car)?





Enter Wakelet. This digital tool is free for everyone. There is no paid version, there are no upgrades, there are no ads....just entirely free and available to use by our teachers and students. At its most basic level, Wakelet is a digital curation tool that allows you to create a "Collection" (folder, bucket, whatever you might want to call it) where you can drop ANY online resource. If you've ever used Pinterest, it's kind of like that.


If you want to take it to the next level, it is also collaborative! You can invite contributors to your collection. For example, when my son turned 1, I created a collection for birthday cake ideas that I shared with my husband. We were each able to add our own ideas to the collection and see each other's.


In the classroom, you could create one collection and ask all of your students to contribute to it. For example...

Go ahead and click on that image to go to the collection, which I have shared as "anyone with the link can add." You should now be able to add your own content! One little warning...it might look like nothing happened when you Ctrl-V to paste, but just give it a second. :)






Note that you don't need to have an account to add to a collection! You do need one to create a collection, but not to contribute. And to make it even better, there is a Wakelet phone app and a Wakelet Chrome extension for easy access to adding websites to a collection.

This post is just designed to introduce you to the tool - if you are interested in diving deeper and learning more about Wakelet, please reach out to me or take a look at the Wakelet tutorials that I put together.


I'm looking forward to seeing everyone post in my "What Are You Reading?" collection!!

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