| Tools Features | Social Behavior | Affordances | Teaching or learning strategy | Teaching/training best practice or application | Benefits for Educators |
| Widgets in Blogs | – Linking to another tools like Twitter, Flicker and Diigo.
List a blogroll. |
– Organizing your blog site by including updates from multiple tools | – Aggregating information from other tools to help learners review the wide picture of your interest and resources | – Learners share and send useful resources found in classmates blog. | – Tracking students accesses to blogs.
– Track the most visited blogs. |
| My Groups in Diigo | – Create or join groups about topic of interest | – Have accesses to numerous resources about a topic and review comments from other group members about these resources. | – Collaborate on collecting and sharing useful resources and ideas. | – Find solutions for specific problems.
– Resources for a research. – Ideas for a project. – Accesses to beneficial tags created by group members. – Build social communication/ informal friendship with group members. |
– Create safe environments for students.
– Share useful resources without the need of citation. – Engage learners in community of practice. – Present practical ways to collect information |
| My List in Diigo | – Create lists for specific topics of interest | – Collect resources about specific topics
– Further organization for bookmarking |
– Personal collection of data.
– Ability to share these data of make them privet. |
– Navigate through others lists and look for useful sites.
– Accesses instructor’s list for resources. – Add comments to others lists. |
– Collect information for specific courses.
– Display resources as webslids for students. |
March 1, 2011
Interesting post. I didn’t think to include blogs. You have a good point about being able to track the use of the blogs. I’m jealous that you were able to have your features matrix show up. I couldn’t figure it out and wanted to post so that I made the deadline for the assignment. 🙂
Boshra, you did a fantastic job on creating and collating such an informative matrix. Was it easy to incorporate the matrix into your blog? It seems others had some difficulty achieving this feat. I am assuming that like me you preferred diigo; I see that you spent a great deal of time highlighting the use of groups and lists within diigo as instructional tool for educators.
Hello Andrew,
Thanks for your comments. I actually enjoyed working with Diigo. I like its features and how easy it is to save useful resources for later use.
About incorporating the matrix to my blog, it was not bad at all. I just paste the matrix to Word document then post it to my blog. The tricky part is finding the right theme for the post.