"Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo
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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
A nice website keeps you up to date on the technology scene and provides other websites to check out. Gives great short reports on learning technologies..
the site has an interesting point "In fact, many online schools provide all the support services that you would find at a campus-based school - including online libraries, career counseling, writing tutors, study support" :)
so its not just resources like online lectures and library databases
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