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a wiki page about social networking for teaching

a wiki page about social networking for teaching

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

Presentation on Web2.0 for quick revision

"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

Great website for teaching resources for primary and secondary teachers. Teachers around the world share their lesson plans and worksheets. Discussions regarding education issues and job opportunities are also available on the website.

Free Australian primary school teaching resources. English, Maths, Science and Technology, HSIE, PDHPE, Creative Arts and more.

PDF - explaining web 2.0 as a new wave of innovation for teaching and learning

Types of teaching tools

Teaching Resources for ESL

New! Teaching Strategies GOLD Online Quick-Start Guide

teaching, learning, environment

Helpful resources in implementing technology into pedagogy

good to share with teachers who are looking for something different in teaching.

this is a power point on web.2.0 teaching tools

This blog lists Web 2.0 websites and webtools that have potential for use in college and university education.

Been looking for good online Latin resources. This is an introductory course -- its chief advantage in being online is increased availability, as it does not seem to use the web much otherwise. As with most Latin courses, it uses the grammar/translation approach to teaching.

resources for 2.0 teaching & learning, what 2.0 is as well

This is a pretty nice introduction for online learning resources NICE!

interesting article on web 2.0 and how it can be used in education