Cliving's List: Diigo/Social Bookmarking

• • Great description of Diigo with suggested uses and benefits.
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• Save important websites and access them on any computer

  • Sticky note
• Using Diigo, students can bookmark important websites and access them from school, home, the library or any internet-connected computer. Students will always have access to this data.
• Teachers and students can use the group and list features of Diigo to organize bookmarks on themes or topics. Classes can also collaborate and discuss information within Diigo.
• Diigo can provide a way to enrich or extend learning about a topic. Through formal or informal activities, students can research websites about a class topic and post their findings to Diigo lists or groups. Students can also create relevant annotations for others to see.
• Beyond extended student learning, Diigo can be used as a form of professional development. Diigo has several educator groups that are active in sharing and collaborating on bookmarks relevant to education.
• • Students can save relevant websites to lists in their Diigo student accounts. Each saved bookmark captures the URL and a screenshot, and can be searched later.
   
  • Students can highlight important information right on the website, using Diigo. Later, when students return to the website, they find the reason they saved the bookmark in the first place.
   
  • Students can use virtual sticky notes to summarize the important points of information from the website. This activity will mimic the time-tested procedure of using note cards to summarize and organize research projects.
   
  • Students working on similar topics can create and join groups in order to collaborate.
   
  • Later, when students need to document their sources, Diigo can be used to recall website URLs for citing sources.

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• teachers can use social bookmarking sites int he classroom.  This allows the students to access their teachers bookmarking site and do research on the sites that are listed for a particular subject or concept.  This becomes a great way to keep students safe as they search the internet and learn.
• Diigo allow teachers to create and manage student accounts. As noted above, Diigo has many tools that aid in storing, documenting and recalling information. Many educators and students have found this to be useful for research and learning. Recognizing this audience, Diigo has created Diigo Educator Accounts for managing a classroom social network.

• Learn how to set up educator accounts, register students, and set up classes with Diigo, the most powerful and versatile social bookmarking engine.

• Teacher can setup separate accounts - one is for their professional / personal usage, and one to be used for instruction with their students.  That way, there is less concern of mingling these.

• Teaching the iGeneration shows how to integrate proven instructional strategies with 21st century tools to make learning more accessible to today's technology-savvy students. Each chapter identifies an enduring skill that students need to acquire—information fluency, persuasion, communication, collaboration, and problem solving—and offers a digital solution to enhance, rather than replace, familiar practices to teach that skill.
• Diigo Social Bookmarking Directions for Teachers
    Diigo Social Bookmarking Directions for Students
    Social Bookmarking Roles
    Diigo Shared Annotation Directions for Teachers
    Diigo Shared Annotation Directions for Students
    Shared Annotation Roles
• VIDEO TUTORIALS
• Diigo
    Introduction
    Adding Bookmarks
    Adding New Annotations
    Browsing Links
    Create Student Accounts
    Create Student Groups
    Following Annotations on the Homepage
    Installing a Toolbar
    Sorting and Speaking
    Tag Dictionary
    Viewing and Responding to Annotations
  

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• Create lists to add specific bookmarks to and produce interactive web slides from these.
• Importing of bookmarks from your browser and other bookmarking sites
• Tag communities show you bookmarks by tag and the members who have used that tag.
• You can find friends by searching your email addresses for existing diigo users or inviting those who are not yet members.
• Groups allow you to find those who share your interests. (When bookmarking you can choose to share it with a group, with your friends and add to a list.) Voting for a group bookmark via a thumbs up raises its profile – the idea is that the more popular better content becomes easier to find.
• you can set up watch lists for specific tags

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• • This does not seem to function in the newest (2/15/11) version. Instead, you can select" Generate report." This generates a text representation of your list which can be copied and pasted into a document.