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Social Connection Tools “Increased engagement = Opportunity for Increased Learning” Engagement is the why for these tools Information Literacy & Sharing Discoveries delicious Diigo Twitter Annotations on sites helps information literacy.

Collaboration Tools Wikipedia Kaltura–collaborative video editing Google Docs Diigo Create a sharing community Important to teach students collaborative skills to prepare for work Teams are goal-directed

Diigo Set up a group Have everyone in the group highlight and add sticky notes to discuss the content Diigo’s dashboard has forums for discussion Automatic notification available so instructors can keep track of discussion Help connect learning in class to learning outside

Until now, most people were not on the internet so naturally you got your programs on a disk…  now we’re seeing more and more web based applications, and Web 2.0.  If you don’t know what this is figure it out, try delicious, google docs, diigo, netvibes, wordpress…  point is everyone can create and sort the content, not just "webmasters"  the internet is an extension of our minds, we can’t leave it to corporations to create and organize the content for obvious reasons…  all corporations have their vested interests and see the public as consumers, they’d rather you buy something from them, doesn’t matter if its the best or in your best interest or good for your health, etc.  the web 2.0 movement has been mostly a public movement

An Educator's Overview of Diigo

Russ Goerend