Writing: Furl

For students tasked with online research, social bookmarking sites may be helpful to organize information prior to writing. Furl is a popular tool that allows users to save an online copy of any Web page visited, create categories and tags to organize the bookmarked page and write comments about the page. Users can subscribe to one another's saved pages and receive emailed notifications when new materials are saved by peers. A group of students working on a cooperative project could add relevant resources to the same Furl account or easily monitor and track information collected across their peers' accounts to inform the group's assigned problem. Other social bookmarking tools with similar features include del.icio.us and BuddyMarks.