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**UTILIZE SOCIAL BOOKARKS FOR READING AND WRITING TECHNIQUES, SOCIAL BOOKMARKING CAN BE ESSENTIAL FOR RESEARCH** =====

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ARTICLE BY: [|Jonathan Wylie]


What is Social Bookmarking?
There are many potential uses for social bookmarking in education. However, you may be asking yourself just what it is. Social bookmarking is a way to save, store, group, and share Internet bookmarks online. It allows you to have access to your favorite bookmarks on any computer with Internet access, so even if you are away from home, or work, you can still find and use the sites you value most. Social bookmarking sites also give you the option of joining a group of like minded people, following, or being followed by, individuals who collect similar types of bookmarks to your own. Examples of such sites include Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, and the focus of this article, Diigo.

Why Use Diigo in Education?
Diigo lets you do more than just bookmark web pages online. For instance, if you install the Diigo toolbar, or toolbar button, you have the ability to highlight text and pictures in a variety of colors, or add sticky notes to a bookmarked page. With this feature you can annotate web pages with thoughts, ideas or additional information. All these notes are saved for the next time you access the saved bookmark, and anyone else you share the bookmark with, (students or teachers), will also see your annotations. It is a great way to focus attention on a large article..... Diigo lets you take screenshots of bookmarked pages to visually remind yourself of the page content, and archive the page so that if the content changes, or is removed, you will always have the original page that you bookmarked. Saved sites can be tagged for easy searching, organized into lists, or presented as a slideshow. Your Diigo bookmarks can be public, or private, and there are numerous options for sharing with individuals, groups or social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook..... [|cont.]

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==3.Students using the website [|Delicious]to allow student to read articles and share articles: ==
 * Increase motivation to read by allowing them to have choice of articles, and the ability to show what they have read around a subject.
 * Students can create groups and debate based on articles

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==4. Using [|VoiceThread] to social bookmark with pictures and leaving live audio or text responses ==
 * [|Ed.VoiceThread]We're launching a new web-based collaborative network that is simple, powerful and safe, called Ed.VoiceThread. This community is specifically designed for K-12 educators and students. Here is an overview of how it works: http://voicethread.com/about/blog/2008/20080125/ video link
 * [|Using VoiceThread in an online course from Professor Russ Meade]
 * [|Language learners use VoiceThread to practice speaking]
 * BEST Websites for Teaching and Learning http://voicethread.com/about/blog/2009/20090727/


 * ==5. Research & Review with Online Notes: Help pace the students research and ensure that they read and remain organized with notetaking. Allow students to reflect on their own process for re-evaluation online ==


 * [|**NoteStar**] is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page. ||
 * [|ThinkTank] is designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research. ||

Technology Tools: DropBox and WallWisher.
· This Directory shows social tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms. · []