Week 5 – Bookmarking (part 1)

Bookmarking your favourite websites is probably familiar to you.

Just to refresh you memory…

Thing 8 - Browser based bookmarks

TASK:

Find a website you like or find useful, and then…..

• Using Internet Explorer
• click the green plus/gold star button to “add to favourites”
• Name the favourite in a way that makes sense to you.
• Click add.
• To view the feed to check if there are any new items for you to read, click the gold star button, and pick the “favourites” column; alternatively, click “favourites” in the top menu bar.
• You have the chance to organise your favourites into folders if you want to. Click “favourites” in the top menu bar, and click “organise your favourites”
• OR
• Using Firefox,
• Click the star in the address bar, this automatically adds it to your list of Bookmarks (notice it changes from clear to gold)
• Click the star again, and you’re given the chance to name the bookmark in a way that makes sense to you, and to put it in a particular folder (depending on the way you’ve organised your bookmarks)
• You also get the chance to tag the bookmark.
• Click done or “remove this bookmark” as appropriate.
• To view your bookmarks, click “bookmarks” and chose “recently bookmarked”

BLOG:
Take a screenshot of your list of favourites/bookmarks, and load it into your blog. Label it “Thing 8”