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social bookmarking:

diigo

symbaloo

Maryann Angeroth & David VanHorn

Green Hills Area Education Agency

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http://todaysmeet.com/socialbookmarking

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What is a PLN?

How many people have traditional networks?

•What do your networks do for you?

•What is the greatest between you and the most distant person in your network?

A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment.

•In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection.[1][2]

•An important part of this concept is the theory of connectivism developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes.

•Learners create connections and develop a network that contributes to their professional development and knowledge.[3]

•The learner does not have to know these people personally or ever meet them in person.[2]

•Dryden's and Vos' book on learning networks:[4]

"For the first time in history, we know now how to store virtually all humanity's most important information and make it available, almost instantly, in almost any form, to almost anyone on earth.

We also know how to do that in great new ways so that people can interact with it , and learn from it."

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Why PLNs?

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Personal Learning Network (PLN)

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What and Why of Social Bookmarking

1) Communicate

2) Collaborate

3) Connect

4) Critical Thinking

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Communicate

Communicate:

By saving bookmarks online (in the cloud), we allow others to see our bread crumbs where we have been and we share the road map how we arrived where we are.
We are also able to accessÂ (communicate with) our resources from any device with Internet access (home computer, school computer, mobile devices).
We can add notes to explain our train of thought, further questions, or future direction our research could take and communicate like this with potential collaborators.
Summarizing the site we are bookmarking allows others to quickly read if the site would warrant an extended visit.
Adding highlights to the website shows others in a glance what we felt was the most important message.

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Collaborate

Collaborate:

Social bookmarking allows for group based research. With a little organization, groups can divide research areas and pull them together via pre-arranged tags.
Folksonomy (Daniel Pink, 2005 - “the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content”) allows to take advantage of collaborating on a much larger scale. Other users, including possible experts in the field, share and add resources to your research by simply using a shared tag.

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Connect

Connect:

By publicly sharing your bookmarks in the cloud (instead of in your browser and on your computer alone)Â you automatically connect with anyone who finds your userpage or when your bookmarks (using a specific tag ) are added to their search results.
By using tags in your own searches you connect automatically to others who chose to share and tag bookmarks with the same tags.
Most social bookmarking services allow you to create or join groups or become members of a network that you select. This way you are connected to a specific group of users who share common interest in one way or another.
Each user, tag or string of tags has its own RSS feed, which connects you instantly to any update and addition by any user using these tags.

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Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking:

It is easy to bookmark any resource. Most social bookmarking services have browser specific buttons, that allow you to easily add the link to your bookmarking library. Once bookmarked, you are prompted to add tags. These tags allow you to categorize and organize your resources. Choosing appropriate tags are of vital importance to connect to resources tagged with the same keywords.
Looking at a bookmark shared by other user lends itself to begin analyzing what kind of tags s(he) used to categorize the link. Did they see a connection to another category that you did not? Did they interpret the content of the link differently than you did? Can I use their tags to follow my research towards a new direction?
How do we organize thousands and thousands of bookmarks? Some services allow for tag bundles to be created. Some allow your tags to be seen in a word cloud. How can we interpret the collaborative tagging of a single bookmark by potentially thousands of people around the world?

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diigo

Digest of Internet Information Groups

and Other Stuff

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Highlighting and Bookmarking

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Research & Collaborating

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Social Content

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Knowledge Sharing

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diigo as part of your PLN

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How do I get started?

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Enter Your Information

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Inside diigo - My Library

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Inside diigo - My Network

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Inside diigo - My Groups

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Inside diigo - My Community

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diigolet

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Quick Notes

•diigo on your desktop

•local or connected to the coulds

•Quick Notes

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diigo, Educator Version

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Teacher Use of diigo

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Teacher Console

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Teachers Can

•organize, filter and bookmark resources

•categorize bookmarks for specific classes

•use a common tag to share resources of interest to all students in the same level class

•reinforce lessons on primary v secondary sources

•collect sources and evaluate information with students

•share information with other teachers

•share a parent resource tag

Teachers and Schools can:

organize, filter and bookmark resources for their students
categorize bookmarks for specific classes, projects, grade levels, units, lessons, areas of interest (Take a look at top five reasons for using social bookmarking by Vicki Davis)
use a common group tag or hashtag to share resources of interest to all students in the same level class across sections (Thanks to @lrosen)
reinforce lessons on primary vs. secondary sources. Discussion of what makes high quality sources. Periodic (informal) reviews of collected and shared bookmarks by students (Thanks to @kyteacher)
use social bookmarking to collect sources & evaluate the information together with students. The goal is to find credible & relevant sources (Thanks to @learnfromcarson)
extract and use the same tags as experts in a field. It feeds “Phd” quality links to students (Thanks to@coolcatteacher)
create a school account on one of the social bookmarking sites and come up with specific tags for your school, ex.”MJGDS_science”, “MJGDS_language_arts”, “MJGDS_5thtgrade”, “MJGDS_parent_resources”.
share these “specially-created-for-your-school” tags with school’s faculty, asking them to start using these tags when their bookmark with their own account.
share a “parent_resource” tag with your parent community to subscribe to or embed the RSS feed of the specific tag on your school website.

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Students can

•evaluate and interpret information

•tag bookmarks (their own and others)

•summarize bookmarks (their own and others)

•take advantage of experts in the field (subscribing)

•learn to search for relevant information - beyond Googling

•collaborate with members of a study group (local or global)

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Success with Social Bookmarking

•Be explicit

•Roles students may play

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diigo for Administrators -

5 Uses

Save bookmarks of Web resources and articles to later share with school staff.

As I read through articles and posts in my Google Reader and from other places, I use the bookmarking feature of Diigo to store bookmarks of those resources.

I also use this same feature to place bookmarks into the various teacher groups I have created.

I can customize my resource sharing to the groups who need them.

Use the highlighting feature to draw the school staff’s attention to specific text for later discussion in PLCs.

For example, suppose during the course of PLC discussion, a curriculum question arises for which no one has an answer. •After that meeting, you could use Diigo’s highlighting feature to capture specific items from the Web that focus on an answer to those issues and questions.

•Use the sticky note feature to clarify what is highlighted or ask additional questions.

Use the Diigo notes to add information to the resources and to ask questions to guide staff into further reflection. •For example, your could use the notes feature to clarify your thoughts and reflections to staff on some of the items shared. •You could also make suggestions about additional offline resources such as books and journals that might help them further reflect on the issues.

Based on an faculty-interested area of study, set up a Diigo group for information gathering, discussion, and resource sharing about this topic.

•For example, if your staff is interested in exploring Project-Based learning.

•Set up a Diigo group that is focused on the collecting and sharing of resources for this area of interest.

Create a Parent group to share Web resources with them.

•Make a dynamic online library for the parents of your school, by constantly adding Web resources you find.

From: 21st Century Principal - October 22, 2011

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Yes, There's an App for That

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diigo Resources

•Langwitches

•diigo in the Classroom

-diigo basics for educators

-lesson plans for diigo in the classroom

•21st Century Principal

•Folksonomy

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SymbalooEDU

Symbaloo is a visual, social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to access your personal knowledge management tools.

Over 50.000 teachers and students all over the world are using SymbalooEDU as a Personal Learning Environment tool.

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Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

PLEs cater to students with different learning styles.

Students using PLEs benefit from the practice of keeping track of, and curating, their own resource collections.

Using PLEs empower students to take greater control of their learning networks and connections with peers, experts, and others.

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Wendy's PLE using Symbaloo

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J.J. Gorgy's PLE

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Symbaloo EDU

Set up an Educator Account

Add students

Add the Symbaloo toolbar

Create lessons

Embed Google Docs, RSS feeds, and Video

Embed in your Google Site and Wikispace

Use as an ePortfolio

Use it has your home page (local area network)

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Symbaloo EDU

http://edu.symbaloo.com/

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Symbaloo: Student Tool

Elementary Student's Home Page

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Symbaloo Bookmarker

Symbaloo Bookmarker for Firefox and Chrome is a your personal desktop on the web.

Add the Bookmarker to your browser.

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Webmixes

Create, Share, Collaborate, Search

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Embed

Embed your Favs into your Symbaloo Webmix.

google docs
flickr
liveleak
picasa
schooltube
slideshare
teachertube
twitpic
google video
vimeo
youtube
twitvid
animoto
yahoo video

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Find out More

Symbaloo on Twitter

#symchat

#symEDU

YouTube/SchoolTube

Symbaloo Blog

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