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Jessica Leister

Recovered Titanic jewels to go on display - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • Most of the jewelry recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic will go on public display for the first time with a three-city tour.
  • The jewelry is from a single purser's bag found during a 1987 research and recovery mission.
  • Going down two and a half miles below the ocean, recovering a bag, bringing it back up and opening it and finding ... jewelry," Klingelhofer said. "We're able to give them a glimpse of how it must have been to have opened that for the first time and to see, together, the beautiful jewelry of the Edwardian Period."
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  • Conservators and curators have been studying and preserving the jewelry to gain a better understanding of individual passengers' lives aboard the ill-fated voyage.
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    Titanic jewels found
kate buttorf

Why Diigo as bookmarking tool - 0 views

  • The bookmarks are located on a specific computer. Bookmarks from work computers are not automatically available on home computers
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      regular bookmarks cannot do what diigo can
  • users may not remember why they created a bookmark
  • information is available only to one user
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  • bookmarks are stored to a social bookmarking website
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      Why diigo is better
  • Bookmarks are available on any computer.
  • Users can often find new resources from their peers.
  • A note can be written for each social bookmark. This can help a user to remember what was important for a certain bookmark
  • The entire network can benefit from the location of useful websites
  • it allows for people to join groups that they have similar interests with
  • Also, teachers can use social bookmarking sites int he classroom.  This allows the students to access their teachers bookmarking site and do research on the sites that are listed for a particular subject or concept.  This becomes a great way to keep students safe as they search the internet and learn.
kate buttorf

Diigo in the Classroom - 1 views

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    Video explaining how Diigo helps in the classroom
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