Group Activities in Online InstructionA social knowledge-sharing group

exercise to evaluate the implementation of the National

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implementation of the National Library of Medicine's 2006-2016

Long Range Plan.

Charles J. GreenbergCoordinator, Curriculum and Research Support,

Program Development and ResearchCushing/Whitney Medical Library

Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT

LecturerSchool of Library and Information Science

San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, CA

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http://www.diigo.com/

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Diigo Educator Account Featureshttp://www.diigo.com/education

�You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation)

�Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo

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Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums.

�Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them.

�Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/plan/

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Example of individual pre-course knowledge survey result

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Diigo Teacher Console and Student Groups

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Diigo bookmarking and capture is accomplished with a tool bar that becomes part of your browser.

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Example of one of the Diigo™ class groups and their collection activity

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Cumulative tagging for the group

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