Omnivorous Surfer

It is often useful to keep a list of links to websites for the classroom to make available for student use. Keeping such a list online is much more efficient that trying to keep Favorites/Bookmarks updated on a number of classroom machines. My first criteria in choosing such a manager is keeping students safe from inappropriate collections; the first one I tried did not.

Then I found iKeepBookmarks.com, which I used in the classroom for years. Problem? It loads far too slowly for whole-classroom use. I recently tried sitejot.com, but had the same problem with it.
I believe I have found an acceptable site in BookKit. It has a clean appearance, and loads very quickly. This will be my manager of preference, despite the fact that it is missing two features of my previous one which I used extensively: the ability to have a combination of public (student) and private (teacher) links, and a tool to add a bookmark for a site while on that site without copying and pasting the URL onto the manager site.

As much as I like this site, it seems to be good for personal use, but I haven't been able to access it without logging in, so it is not public. I have contacgted the BookKit people and am waiting for a response, but for now it appears this will not do what I originally thought it would do. I may have to keep looking.