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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

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

The Web 2.0 Research Projects aimed to identify how teachers and students can benefit from Web 2.0 technologies, and provide practical guidance based on examples of actual use in Victorian schools.

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.

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"Bringing Social Media and Web 2.0 into the Classroom Brett McLennan and Christine Evely, Australian Centre for the Moving Image January 2010, Online Professional Learning Program for Teachers Web 2.0 and social media tools are becoming increasingly important tools to assist teachers in providing key learning for today's students. This session examined social media trends and provided participants with an understanding of the impact social media tools have both inside and outside the classroom. The session focussed on classroom strategies for both integrating the use of social media into the curriculum and linking it to traditional forms of classroom practice."

games are great for encouraging students learning! quite a fun site!