My library list has been talking about how to mark a web site so students would go right where you want them to be.

For those who have online classes this information on marking the specific section of a web site might be handy:

My original request was for information on any web-based applications that

would let me bookmark or highlight a particular part of a webpage. A

student who opened the page would see at once where to start reading.

A couple LM_Netters also pointed out how useful it is for searchers to

know about using the Edit: Find on this Page command in the Edit menu - this is a great thing for kids to know how to do.

Applications with no download:

The application that looks most useful is Fleck, at http://fleck.com.

This service requires a login to annotate the webpages, but then generates

a web address for the annotated page that could be part of a Webquest. I

thought this site had lots of possibilities imagine a student

opening a page and seeing a little sticky note that says, “What

does this paragraph tell you about the author’s biases? :-)”

I had trouble opening the links in Firefox, though it worked in Internet

Explorer.

www.diigo.com This site bills itself as a “social annotation” website that saves a clipped portion of a webpage that can be shared

in a blog or by e-mail. Requires a login and password, though the webpage can be shared by e-mail without a password.

(Blocked by my district's filter.)

Applications that require a download to work:

There are two Firefox extensions that might work:

Trailfire (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3524/) which lets you build

a trail of comments through a webpage, and Dog Ears

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4482/) which bookmarks a section of a page. These appear to be geared to the individual user, though, without a "sharing" aspect.

www.mystickies.com: MyStickies allows you to place little yellow

squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the

whole wide web. The stickies show up when you

revisit the page. It wouldn’t work with a class assignment,

because you have to have a login and password, but would be great when

sharing a website with a whole class. I did find that it slowed the

loading of new pages in my browser, as new pages were by the application to see if there were any that had to be loaded with the page.

Chris Smith’s Shambles website has a comprehensive list of social

bookmarking tools: http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/favourites.