Bookmarks, at their most basic, allow site users to store, categorize, and share links to websites. Bookmarks can also be used as a tool for focusing student discussions, and as a means to teach media literacy and critical evaluation of sources. In this chapter, we will discuss how to store bookmarks on your website, and describe some activities that incorporate bookmarks into the daily work of the class.

In Chapter 3, we created a bookmark content type using the Link module. In Chapter 4, when we created the Teacher blog, we set up the view that collects the Teacher blog posts to include bookmarks. In Chapter 6, when we set up the Student blog, we configured the views that collect Student blog posts and backlinks to include bookmarks. To complete the process, we need to assign rights to users in the student role to create bookmarks.