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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

An ipad app that allows you to screencast a recording of audio and writing on a document.

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The Diigo app..!

"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."

This website provides a number of Web 2.0 sites that are relevant or useful to education ranging from sites like Moodle to online tutoring sites.

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179 Web 2.0 Education Apps provided here!!

"iAnnotate turns your tablet into a world-class productivity tool for reading, marking up, and sharing PDF documents, Word/PowerPoint files, and images. Every day thousands of students and professionals discover how it helps them work better. Join the more than half million users that already rely on iAnnotate to get work done. "

A fantastic tool for all teachers. Highly recommended.

This is a great tool for all teachers it is the new Australian Curriculum for your iphone.

A site that offers a range of practical tools for students to use