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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
Well, I have to say it’s easy to get used to teaching with an IWB, mainly because of access to the Internet. Suddenly you have the real world at your fingertips instead of the cardboard cut-out world of the average course-book. However, there are times in my classes when it never gets switched on.
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.
Students from Anna Bay Public School in NSW using an interactive whiteboard in their classroom. Forget the chalk dust, the dog eared textbooks, even the more modern DVD player. Today's school students are downloading homework on iTunes, listening to lessons via podcasts, communicating with other students all over the world through social networking sites, and even video conferencing with leaders of business and industry.
Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and social bookmarking
The two major components of Web 2.0 are the technological advances enabled by Ajax and other new applications such as RSS and Eclipse
One of the most significant differences between Web 2.0 and the traditional World Wide Web (retroactively referred to as Web 1.0) is greater collaboration among Internet users and other users, content providers, and enterprises.
a few characteristics often noted as descriptive of Web 2.0:
bloggingAjax and other new technologiesGoogle Base and other free Web servicesRSS-generated syndicationsocial bookmarkingmash-upswikis and other collaborative applicationsdynamic as opposed to static site contentinteractive encyclopedias and dictionariesease of data creation, modification or deletion by individual usersadvanced gaming.
Critics of Web 2.0 maintain that it makes it too easy for the average person to affect online content and that, as a result, the credibility, ethics and even legality of Web content could suffer.
this is wat web 2.0, but more then that this is a example of a web 2 medium
a collaborative medium
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media d