Social Bookmarking in the Classroom
By: Ellen Cordeiro@elliemellie
Objectives
•Define
•Create
•Educational Applications
•Practice
What is Social Bookmarking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc
Out with the old...
Bookmarking
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Bookmarking
Notes
Photo by vintagedept and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/3744085670
Annotations
Photo used with permission from Luis Caldas de Oliveira and can be found at http://www.luiscaldasdeoliveira.com/2007/12/31/comprimir-um-livro-em-2-paginas/lang-pref/en/
In with the new...
Adjective:Present, appearing, or found everywhere
u·biq·ui·tous/yo͞� o͞ˈbikwətəs/
iPhone 4 - Twitter photo by William Hook and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/2587135610
iPhone photo by William Hook and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/4742869256iPad photo by HS and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/4527081753
"Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff."
Tags
Image created by Jerry “Woody” and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/3251579331
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywC_ebiSb4
“Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, enabling users to organize their bookmarks in flexible ways and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies.” ~Wikipedia
Why Diigo?
Diigo Educator Accounts
•Student Accounts
•Create Groups
•Privacy Settings
•Educational Ads
Image created by Alan Cleaver and can be found at http://www.wylio.com/credits/Flickr/4105726930
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWapAF1Txw&feature=relmfu
Let’s create an account
Go to http://www.diigo.com/ and click on Get Started Now
Go to www.diigo.com/education
Fill in the information
required and click Apply for Diigo
Educator Account
Voila
Classroom Application
•Share Bookmarks for research project
•Students share annotations and highlight important information right on the website
•Ask questions for students to respond to
•Archive information
•Collaborate
•Manage information
•Evaluate resources
How will you use it?
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My DIIGO PLN
•http://www.diigo.com/profile/Stevenanderson
•http://www.diigo.com/profile/patricklarkin
•http://www.diigo.com/profile/Willrich
•http://www.diigo.com/profile/Shellyterrell
Things to consider
•Poor use of tags
•Skewed views
•Just another location to store data...
Activity1.Locate a resource
2.Use the Diigolet to
• Highlight
• Add a sticky note
3.Add tag(s)
4.Create a group and add resource to group
Creating Groups and Adding Students
Create a GroupLog into DIIGO and click on Teacher Console
Notice you can make your group public or private
Notice there are three ways to add group members
Creating Student Accounts
Click on Option 1 to create student accounts without using email.
You can either mannually type in students names
oryou can upload an already created CSV
file
Remember...don’t use student full names when
creating accounts
Use first name and last initial or
their log in I.D.s
Let’s go share our bookmarks!