Sqworl

There are many tools for organizing and sharing bookmarks. Which social bookmarking tool you choose will likely depend on the quantity of links you want to organize, what information you want to store associated with each link, cost, and the ways in which you foresee using your link collection.

Sqworl is a simple social bookmarking service developed for educators. I suppose the name has something to do with putting away resources for future use (winter is coming). The service seems suited to organizing small collections for student or colleague use (e.g., three sources for information about why leaves change colors, math activities for 4th-grade teachers).

Sqworl uses a visual method for representing sites that seems similar to Pinterest. You add a title and description to the visual thumbnail of the site.

Sqworl is easy to use. Once you have created a group, you simply enter the link for a site you want to add and then add descriptive information when the service generates a thumbnail for that site.

Sqworl collections are organized into groups (this seems to imply a social purpose, but you could use groups to organize private collections). Each group is associated with a unique URL that you share with intended users.

There is a free and pro version of this service. Educators can pay $4 a month for $40 for the year to use the service. The Pro version removes the ads (an issue for many when using a service with students) and adds private groups for improved security.