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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

"As the character of Mark Zuckerberg popularly said in the movie "The Social Network," "People want to go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around, maybe it's someone you just met at a party. Eduardo, I'm not talking about a dating site; I'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online." Social networking is changing the way the world is doing everything, from the way people get information to the way people communicate, and, most importantly, the way people interact. The importance and relevance of social media outlets are growing stronger with the rapid developments of technology; however, is there a strong importance for social networking profiles like Facebook? Is tweeting really an effective form of communication. And, finally, what is the importance of Flickr? The world is greatly influenced by social networking. Why not help launch yourself into the ever-changing face of the virtual world? Consider these 10 reasons on how having a social networking profile will benefit your future. 1. Staying connected with friends Social networking is the easiest way to stay in touch with old friends, friends who don't live close to you or even just roommates. 2. For means of communication Everyone has those days when they wake up without a phone or any way to communicate with the world except through social networking. You could update your social networking profile, and one of your "followers" could even help you locate your phone. 3. Keeping up-to-date on news more quickly Some social networking sites constantly update news information. This enlightens readers and social networking profile owners. 4. Achieving a more personal connection Having a social networking profile allows you to keep informed on recent happenings with people in your network. You have something to discuss with your co-workers and friends and even a

"Social Bookmarking in Education Social bookmarking is just one of the "newest things" sweeping the Internet. In essence, social bookmarking lets you maintain a personal collection of links online, similar to the bookmarks or favorites in your browser, but they are also accessible to others on your own personal archive page. The real meat of the services, however, is "tagging". When you save a link to your collection, you tag it with one or more keywords to describe it. Multiple people can use the same words, so you can search for everything tagged with "distance education" or "RSS" and get the collected archive of everything that anyone using the service has found using that tag."

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.

'Your Family's Home on the Internet!' - A site which students could use to interact with their family in a safe environment!

This websites gives a number of web based teaching resources. Furthermore, it gives a brief description of what these websites can do and a link to that website.

It contains links to web 2.0 resources which can be useful for teachers of students from K-12

An Internet Hotlist on Web 2.0

An excellent site for teaching resources on Shakespearean plays with ideas for how to integrate ICT into lessons.

discussion on interactive whiteboards (iwbs) an interview format on how to use IWBS and their usefulness