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Comparison of diigo, dleicious and traditional bookmarking - produced by Diigo so not entirely independent - but good sumary of what Diigo can do

Social networking as the means to reviving students' flagging literacy skills? This short post gives the background to a bigger study by Andrea Lunsford, the Stanford Study of Writing (which I shall bookmark separately_.

Inspired to bookmark this from the grad attributes consultation in which one group had two members who were engaging in 'destructive group behaviours' (brought onto the straight and narrow eventually by a skilled facilitator) ... I have heard it suggested that if groups are being derailed by dominating or digressing types, it can be useful for the whole group to sit down and consider what kind of group member they are in order to limit their unhelpful behaviours and get the group working well again.

I missed out on the session today so I'm not sure of the context of this, I can imagine though! As an aside...this is a very interesting web site all round...I've just been watching a presentation on "How people learn" and it's interesting from the point of view of the subject matter and from the perspective of how the material has been made available. I know Giles is working hard trying to put together videos of some of our own academics talking about teaching and I look forward to seeing them!

We probably shouldn't be unduly concerned with QM's apparent lack of progress in the Web2.0 area....yet....

Article in the Guardian education about HE's use of Web2.0 technologies. It's driven by the publication of a report by Sir David Melville but highly annoyingly does not provide any reference for the report itself....I have managed to track it down....see the "Higher Education in a Web2.0 World" bookmark!

Useful guide to using diigo and delicious together

It would be nice if you could choose the bookmarks that you also send to delicious instead of them all going to both.

Now there is a conflict between zotero and diigo - anybody else using zotero - which should I use for PGCAP next year? Have set up a test group if anyone wants to join me trying it out - let me know