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

"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.

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.

Video blog about digital tools in the classroom

Thought this might be particularly good for visual learners

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

a wiki page about social networking for teaching

a wiki page about social networking for teaching

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.

"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."

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

Article on the integration of Web 2.0 applications into education. It has some specific applications for Web 2.0 in education.

This website explores how web 2.0 technologies are used in education. Blogging, podcasting, media sharing and lots more that can be used in the classroom!

this is a power point about how web technologies are shaping

"An edublog about integrating technology into the classroom"

This is an edublog. You may find it helpful with useful informaiton!

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

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

A great blogging tool, can be used for collaborative and reflective learning. Another one recommended by Byron ;)

Here are some 2.0 Ideas for the primary school classroom environment

A great easter piece of Children's literature. Involves a childhood favortive and classic Peter Rabbit