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

Image created by colourized and can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/colourized/2096715790/sizes/m/in/photostream/

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!