Sqworl (Online Resource)

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March 8, 2009 by Paul Hamilton

Here’s a very practical resource that I learned about from Vienna over at Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties. If you have any reason to put a set of visual links to websites or online activities on a single web page, this will be useful for you.

Sqworl enables you to create web pages where you can embed visual links to other web pages. I don’t think the process could be any easier. After you have registered and created your Sqworl account, you simply log in, add a new “group” and paste the URL’s of the web pages that you want on your Sqworl page.

You are given a new URL for each Sqworl page that you have created. Links to Sqworl pages can be shared conveniently from within Sqworl via email or your favorite social networking site such as Twitter or Facebook.

Sqworl enables you to create a home page for yourself, or for any learner that you are supporting. The home page can contain the web pages that the user visits frequently. Or, you may set up purpose-specific pages for any number of reasons. These can be tailor made for specific individuals, or for perhaps for groups of learners.

The screen shot below shows a Sqworl page I’ve created with 6 science books from Tar Heel Reader. Clicking on the screen shot will take you to the actual page where the links are live.

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4 Responses to “Sqworl (Online Resource)”

on 08 Mar 2009 at 9:13 pm1 Mallory Burton

Hi Paul, this looks like a great way to summarize web resources for a presentation. I like Diigo webslides but always wish I could add the commentary that I saved with the bookmark. Do you know how much text you can add below each link in sqworl? Also, does sqworl currently interface with any of the social bookmarking sites?
on 08 Mar 2009 at 10:25 pm2 Patrick Black

I LOVE Sqworl.com! I’ve used it to give my students choices of activities, videos, books, etc… online. They love having a preview to allow them the independence to choose! Great resource.
on 09 Mar 2009 at 11:46 am3 Paul Hamilton

Mallory: There must be a limit somewhere, I was able to add several sentences of text without any difficulty when I tried. There is a convenient option right in Sqworl for sharing “Groups” via virtually any social networking service. –Paul
on 10 Mar 2009 at 4:47 pm4 Lori Sevedge

This is great! I used to have to save separate links for each page my daughter liked to visit and now I have them all on one page and they are visually displayed which will help her see all of her options better. Thanks for sharing this!