Students please use this website to create a timeline of events leading up to the Depression
Introduction to Diigo
How Diigo fits into the 21st Century educational landscape. Why you want to be a diigoer. How we are currently using it. What you can do with the program.
High School Uses
At this level students should be able to work through all features of Diigo for class assignments and research. Diigo is a great web 2.0 technology for the SEE project as the student could share his/her annotation online with English teacher, content advisor and librarian. There could be more collaborative work amongst SEE students of similar topics. Diigo is a great way to get multiple perspectives on your content area to supplement textbooks in your classroom. Diigo lists and links can be posted into your Moodle environment.
Example of high school student using it for the SEE.
Middle School Uses
At this level students should have their own accounts. Students should be able to bookmark, highlight, stickynote,and organize list. The social aspect of Diigo is great for this level as peer interaction is important. However, we must teach the distinction between social networks and learning social networks.Finally this program supports the PBL focus in research.
Middle school PBL project on Discrimination int he DR. This exchange has good examples of peer feedback.
Timeline maker for history. I have an example floating sticky note as an example of how to give your students directions on webpages.
Students please use this website to create a timeline of events leading up to the Depression
Elementary Uses
For young grades like PK- 2nd- The teacher could use diigo on a smartboard\projected to highlight key ideas. Students would not have their own accounts yet.Primarily, in upper Elementary we have used Diigo to teach learning network and tagging concepts. We have also transferred the highlighting and annotating reading strategies to the online world. We are fostering close, active reading even in front of a computer screen. Since elementary students do not have an email we use the teacher console to generate accounts with more control.The following links are examples and websites geared towards the elementary level
This is a website 5th graders visited for a biome research project. Look at the kinds of sticky notes they are writing. There are examples of feed back comment within the sticky notes.
Active Reading and Note taking Skills
Websites that help teach strong note taking skills. These sites would be a great starting place with diigo in the classroom. I would start in the classroom with the old style highlighting and sticky noting a reading passage before moving online with it.
Practice highlighting and sticky noting this page
An essay on why you should mark a book- I offer that we should translate this to why we should mark up a webpage. This could help you teach the note-taking skills
Website directed to teachers to help students make connections to text. You might also use phrases like text-to-self, text-text, text-to-world to give feedback or help students understand what they are reading.
Great website showing the trash or treasure method of notetaking for upper elementary and middle school students
This website is great for teaching notetaking skills to elementary students
Rubrics
The following sites have rubrics focused on highlighting and annotating that could be transferred to assessing diigo activities.
Quick Rubric for annotating could use for assessing diigo assignments
Annotation Rubric to help assess diigo activities
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List of sites for Diigo workshop with feedback
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