Classroom collaboration is an area that benefits directly from today's Internet experience in that students can develop their potential for learning by becoming more actively involved. Indeed, they can learn to approach and solve problems by collaborating with other students and their teachers. Social bookmarking websites give them opportunities to discover and organize information.
Diigo enhances and improves the learning experience by encouraging group collaboration and making organizing and saving web resources faster and easier for students.
This Critical Issue was researched and written by Gilbert Valdez, Ph.D., director of North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium and codirector of North Central Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Consortium (NCEMSC). Editorial guidance was provided by Barbara Youngren, director, NCEMSC.
Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages: Below are just a few options for using Diigo in the classroom.
I love this site for keeping track of books I've read, books I want to read, and books I'm currently reading, for sharing book suggestions with friends or the online community. It can be used in a transformative way with students to share reading interests, review/comment, etc.
