Several Thinkfinity trainers conducting Thinkfinity professional development sessions have tipped me off to a trick that lots of people are using to find terrific resources: they check to see what their friends have bookmarked, and select the bookmark icon to save them for themselves!

Here's one anecdote:

"I observed a group of California school teachers using the community  to save resources that they were going to use the first month of  school. There was one teacher who was finding resources quicker than his  grade level team members to use with his 5th graders. The other 5th  grade teachers were so excited to see that they could just find the  teacher’s profile from within the Community and “steal” all his cool  favorite resources and add them to their favorite list.  It saved the  other teachers tons of time.

The “fast clicker”  didn’t seem to mind that they were “stealing” all his stuff because he  was the “techie” guy in the group and his group members would have come  to him anyways asking for ideas.  This also saved the “fast clicker”  time because he didn’t have to help each of them individually. The  helpful teacher also tagged his stuff with the school name so teachers  in the school could search that way to find his resources."

—by tammy0214

Here's how:

1. Friend someone you know

2. Click their username to see their Profile

3. Select the tab "[Name]'s Stuff"

4. Select the tab "Favorite Resources"

5. The best part: all you have to do to save a resource as your own favorite is click the bookmark icon to the right of the title.

(The bookmark icon looks like this; it's red when you have bookmarked it, grey when you have not.)

Happy bookmarking!

Christine

Community Manager