Been the innovative site for visually bookmarking a site and collaborating has just launched a educational portal that makes it perfect for educators to use w/ their class. This free web tool is not only ideal for social bookmarking in schools but real-time collaborative web browsing as well. Been's new web portal now allows for educators to create student accounts, and communicate w/ them in real-time while bookmarking/browsing the web.
This is ideal for Guided Learning, Flipping a Classroom, Project Based Learning, and can be used by any subject or curriculum. Educators can use it to create internet scavenger hunts, to research/introduce a topic, or any other number of possibilities.
The educator account is perfect for moderating student's Beens (bookmarks/collections), comments, resetting passwords, etc. Being "housed" inside of an educational portal allows for educators to see public Beens but only allows for students to see those of their teacher. Teachers can also collaborate w/ their peers to allow for collective Beens that can be use for group projects.
Finally, the ability to collaboratively surf the web when being on the same page allows for students/educators to share comments and surf together to guide instruction. Also, educators can assess students who have questions when surfing the web or researching a topic.
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Below is a demo video on collaboratively surfing on Been....
4. Surf Together in Class! from
Been on
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Been for Education is one of my new favorite Web 2.0 sites for collaborative browsing and bookmarking the web in a safe environment. The way this works is educators create, manage, and monitor the student accounts while the "guide" learning by browsing the web and collaborating in real-time. This is all done through an easy to use interface and browser extension and is ideal for researching/introducing a topic, guided learning, and much much more.
Been is a new site for social bookmarking that has to be seen to be believed. This is a beautiful looking site that installs a plugin that allows people to bookmark sites in a visual way. It kind of reminds me of Pinterest in that respect but w/ an element of social networking. Been allows users to collaborate and comment/invite others to join their collections. This aspect of Been is ideal for educators who want to share or receive sites from students and then comment on them.
