These tools let you store and share your bookmarks online. Once you've configured your account and customized your browser it becomes easy to bookmark, describe and tag your Internet discoveries. Just click the toolbar icon and you will be prompted to save your bookmarks (including comments and tags) to the online service you have chosen.
This review of the bookmarking tool diigo shows how social bookmarking can help you read, organize, and share things you read on the web. I'll show you how to sign up and start using it, then give you a tour of some of the social features.
RSS feeds from popular social bookmarking sites. The left column holds sites tagged with aup & cellphone by Warlick on Diigo. You can contribute sites to the right column by tagging pages bookmarked to Del.icio.us with aup & cellphone.
"Diigo is a powerful, yet incredibly simple to use research tool that allows people to annotate, bookmark, highlight, save, and clip the content on the web that matters to them." (Diigo's own tutorials/promotions on YT)
"Diigo is a social bookmarking web 2.0 tool the allows users to highlight, annotate, and share online articles. It's a great collaboration tool for research." (illustration of concrete school use to check how students use the web for study and research)
The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.
Browser button add-on that eliminates superfluous items from YouTube (ads, comments). Just install in the browser bookmark toolbar, browse to the desired video, and click the Quietube button.
I'm thinking that in the Ed Tech rush to engage staff in the potential of Web2.0, that we have actually made it all to easy to get out of their depth. I see lessons that involve summarising the text book into power point, or Googling into a Publisher leaflet daily.
Bookmarked by Patricia Chin. Beyond the provocative title, a great description of present problems in the way tech gets used in the classroom, and their causes.
Project Based Learning uses a 'Contructavist' approach to learning. Constructivism is the label given to a set of theories about learning which fall somewhere between cognitive and humanistic views.
