This title may confuse students. Because you still have other evaluation form below, it may be better just bold the transition senten and no "closing the unit" title with it.
The annotation tool that is used in this research.
We categorize annotation systems into two main groups:
Document-centered and discussion-centered. Discussion-centered systems providing tools to
browse and annotate discussion messages and threads are out of the scope of this paper. Next we
discuss about non-commercial document-centered systems where learners are able to browse and
annotate web-based documents
Third generation annotation tools and their limits.
The idea of learner-centered collaborative learning in the context of this study is that learners are
expected to take responsibility for their own learning: The instructor gives an orientation to the
topic through theoretical face-to-face lectures. S/he also gives few pointers to selected on-line
resources. The system provides tools to process information and collaborate with peer learners.
How learner-centered learning involve in this research study. Learner-centered environment can motivate students to take responsibility for their own learning.
Each document has its own newsgroup that is activated when first message is written.
The idea is that short conversations should take place in comment windows, but the longer ones
should continue in the document specific newsgroup.
The EDUCOSM systems has the "newsgroup" feature and here it talks about use it to organize short and long converstaion. Provides me an idea for our prototype for assignment 3.
Filters enable user to restrict visibility of other user annotations. User may also create his/her own
filters,
Diigo has filter feature too. This may be good for organizing different sticky notes, I think.
The search function of the system has three options: 1) Internal search engine, 2) Google
and 3) manual navigation. The last one is useful if the user prefers to use other search engine than
Google.
This is the article I find that talks about their testing results on EDUCOSM systems (really similar to Diigo after I read it) supporting CSCL environment.