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"Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo * ShareShare * RecommendLog in to Recommend by Michael F. Ruffini Published on Tuesday, September 27, 20110 Comments Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo By Michael F. Ruffini * Social bookmarking websites enhance and improve the learning experience by encouraging group collaboration and making organizing and saving web resources faster and easier for students. * Social bookmarking services offer greater scope for research, integration, and collaboration compared to the more traditional bookmarking applications such as browsers, which offer limited functionality. * Among social bookmarking services, Diigo has features and functions that make it useful for the classroom, giving instructors tools for setting up groups of students, highlighting key information, and commenting. 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. While many social bookmarking sites offer some collaboration opportunities, I have found that Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) combines a user-friendly social platform with bookmarking features, making it an effective research, integration, and collaboration tool for use in the classroom. In this article, I compare the benefits of traditional and social bookmarking websites. Then, using Diigo as a focus, I explore the possible uses and benefits of social bookmarking for research and collaboration in the classroom. Traditional Bookmarking Teachers and students routinely use the Internet for archiving, organizing, and sharing information associated with their research and

"Bringing Social Media and Web 2.0 into the Classroom Brett McLennan and Christine Evely, Australian Centre for the Moving Image January 2010, Online Professional Learning Program for Teachers Web 2.0 and social media tools are becoming increasingly important tools to assist teachers in providing key learning for today's students. This session examined social media trends and provided participants with an understanding of the impact social media tools have both inside and outside the classroom. The session focussed on classroom strategies for both integrating the use of social media into the curriculum and linking it to traditional forms of classroom practice."

"Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

A Prezi Presentation on Web 2.0 in the classroom

Students from Anna Bay Public School in NSW using an interactive whiteboard in their classroom. Forget the chalk dust, the dog eared textbooks, even the more modern DVD player. Today's school students are downloading homework on iTunes, listening to lessons via podcasts, communicating with other students all over the world through social networking sites, and even video conferencing with leaders of business and industry.

slide share on web 2.0 tools in your classroom

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.

The Victorian DEECD website has an article on the recent research and findings on the effectiveness of Web2.0 in the classroom.

This is an awesome resource with lots of information on different web 2.0 tools that an be effectively used in the classroom!

"Class Blogs - Teachers and students can create blogs to help facilitate classroom learning or the blog can be an extension of the classroom conversation."

This helps you to organise students both in and out of the classroom. Do have an explore!

"Create, Engage and Assess With Nearpod it's easy, really easy. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves."

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry after reading and absorbing the statistics in this infographic. Here are my most startling observations: Whiteboards in 28% of Classrooms, Internet Access in only 14%. Only 64% of Schools have Internet Access. Average Number of Students to Computers-24 to 1.

A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ANY CLASSROOM! Has many aspects - videos, photos, email ( gmail), news. Its the worlds largest search engine and can give immediate answers to many questions!!

Social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education

"The advent of Web 2.0 is changing how students think. How can this be integrated into the classroom dynamic?"

Video blog about digital tools in the classroom

Thought this might be particularly good for visual learners

Here are some 2.0 Ideas for the primary school classroom environment

Really great We2 tools

Worth looking at

While the NBN brings the promise of greater capacity and download speeds, the backers of the multi-billion network are pushing the vision that it will propel us into an era that goes beyond faster movie downloads. One of the most commonly used examples is video-conferencing.