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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

"Educational Networking" is the use of social networking technologies for educational purposes. Because the phrase "social networking" can carry some negative connotations for educators, the phrase "educational networking" may be a way of more objectively discussing the pedagogical value of these tools. The original URL for this site (http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com) still works, but http://www.EducationalNetworking.com is now the main URL. The page to list or find a social network devoted to education is here and in the navigation to the left. Also in the navigation are the page for keeping track of articles and blog posts which discuss educational networking, links to discussions on this topic, and pages which could be used for video and podcast tracking.

The education sub-reddit. I'm not sure how many people use reddit, but I find myself spending hours upon hours a day getting lost in all the stuff that people put up there. Reddit is another social bookmarking site, and in particular this page is devoted to eduation, with people linking a bunch of articles/videos etc.

Wiki resources

A great article with some ideas how to keep track of the progress of a student via Web 2.0 technology

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

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

Interesting article on one schools experience with the widespread introduction of laptops in schools.

Learning within incoherent structures: the space of online discussion forums M.J.W. Thomas Article first published online: 12 AUG 2002

Article on how to improve gamification of education.

Quick guides in finding databases according to specific categories.

An expansive abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health, making it an ideal discovery and linking tool for scholarly research in a host of disciplines.

Another useful and relevant databases linker

World's largest digital library.

Quite good assignment article complete with a deal of useful references

2007 report from United Nations Educational Scientific an Cultural Organisation.

2007 report from United Nations Educational Scientific an Cultural Organisation.

Provides examples of Diigo used in education

An article on 'The evolution of Web2.0 in 2009'