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Using collaborative tools for content review

Using collaborative tools for content review

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Using collaborative tools for content review

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- In the movie about getting students to read, I mentioned that your class can use technology to review content as a group. Let's dive into some tools that make this possible. These tools fall into two categories. Social bookmarks allow you and your students not only to share, but also to annotate web content. Social reading tools, also called collaborative reading or reading annotation tools, allow you and your students to annotate documents, ebooks, and other content types. With social bookmarks, it's easy to share links, comment on the links, or even highlight passages of text on the linked pages. There are several social bookmark tools, like Delicious and Diigo. We'll focus on Diigo. Over time, the tool called Diigo has evolved from a place where you just share bookmarks to a powerful engine for collaborative learning. It even has mobile apps so you and your students can annotate from anywhere at any time. Over time, the tool called Diigo has evolved from a place where you just…

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