Connected Learning

Diigu

Diigu is a social bookmarking site which allows to not only to share bookmarks with friends and groups, but also highlight and annotate. Annotations take the form of conversations, allowing ongoing discussion of any website.

Netvibes

Netvibes is a great way to pull together a number of web2.0 services. I have a public page which displays rss of my notes blog for my classes and feeds of pages we're annotating together with diigu. It also lets me create a page which aggregates feeds from my film students individual blogs, allowing me to preview and even comment on them from one page.

Additionally, there is also a private page where you can read email/calendar and other online services and a great plugin which lets you view all your google services in one widget. I'm pretty impressed with it so far and know others who have been using it for a while and think it is great.

Mindmeister questionnaire

Mindmapping

I've recently discovered some amazing online mindmapping tools. Really take the pain out of the process.

http://mindmeister.com



http://mindomo.com (couldn't get the embed to work! Also not my map, but click the following link)

http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=13edb2218093894147e437417784052c

http://bubbl.us

Outstanding web2.0 instructions

I found this incredibly useful wiki with instructions on how to do the basics with some really useful web2.0 sites.

http://21ctools.wikispaces.com/

Particularly useful is the google docs: