Jess M's List: Diigo

• In the past two+ years, I've read and bookmarked almost 3,500 websites that I wanted to keep. I've also highlighted the interesting passages on them, and written margin-notes about those highlights - all without printing the pages.
• It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.

• • Sherman, C. (2006, July 26). Diigo offers "social annotation" tool. Search Engine Watch. Retrieved April 23, 2011 from: http://searchenginewatch.com/3622969
• Jul 26, 2006

• Launch date of Diigo - Jess M on 2011-04-26

• • Try finding the mentioned article:
    "I became intrigued by the idea that this tool could be for much more than bookmarking when I read Will
    Richardson's post, "New Reading, New Writing," where he reflects the collaborative and social nature
    of Diigo and the impact it can have on how we read the web. Richardson makes the following striking
    observation: "The idea that I can not just annotate a paragraph or a sentence or one idea on a webpage
    but that I can engage with others in sharing our thinking about that particular sentence or idea is at once
    powerful and daunting.""
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• Tagrolls are a way for you to display your Diigo tags as part of your website
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• Diigo highlights and sticky notes are persistent in the sense that whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page
• share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues. A project team, a class, or a club can create a group on Diigo to pool relevant resources, findings and thoughts together.
• if you would like to find popular resources on e-learning, searching Diigo can probably get what you want in less time than using search engines, and you may also gain insights from other users.
• You can find and subscribe to the most recent or most popular bookmarks under any set of tags.
• you are what you annotate
• Diigo is a Social Information Network (SIN).

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• we find ourselves awash in petabytes of information of widely varying quality.
• traditional ways of disseminating knowledge have grown well beyond our capacity to assimilate information
• Now, the profound growth of scholarly output has made it a formidable challenge to try to stay current, forcing many of us to retreat into narrow fields of inquiry,
• So, in our haste to prepare ourselves for Academe 2.0, let’s recognize that the old analogue academe has already overwhelmed our capacity to gather, read and assimilate the research, analysis and collected wisdom of our age
• we are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read.
• Can we not elevate the scholarship of synthesis and interpretation back to the highest rank of professional inquiry, recognizing the remarkable talent needed to bring together in a readily digestible form the accumulated insights of thousands of scholars?

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• CNET rating

  7.3

  4. Diigo beta

  How helpful is it to bookmark a Web site if you need only one sentence from that 3,000-word article? Diigo is a free bookmarking service that lets you do what we wish Yahoo's Del.icio.us would: highlight text and comment on Web pages. Diigo caches each site so that you can search within text, not just the topic tags. And you won't have to leave the Del.icio.us community, since Diigo lets you save bookmarks simultaneously in both places.
• How helpful is it to bookmark a Web site if you need only one sentence from that 3,000-word article? Diigo is a free bookmarking service that lets you do what we wish Yahoo's Del.icio.us would: highlight text and comment on Web pages

• • Calore, M. (2009, January 30). Ma.gnolia suffers major data loss, site taken offline. Wired. Retrieved April 20, 2011 from:http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/01/magnolia-suffer/
• In light of today’s outage, many are questioning the reliability of web apps and web-based storage in general.

• Possible weakness of cloud based online libraries in social bookmarking tools - Jess M on 2011-04-26

• The good: Diigo imports bookmarks from elsewhere; tags pages by topic; lets you mark up and share Web pages; has a simple interface; toolbar and bookmarklet allow quick bookmarking; bookmarks simultaneously to rival services; searches text and comments within bookmarks.
• The bad: Diigo's subscription features are under construction; doesn't automatically merge similar tags; doesn't preview bookmarked pages.

• Diigo has acquired web page clipping and archiving service Furl

• • Ferriter, W. M. (2011). Good Teaching Trumps Good Tools. Educational Leadership, 68(5), 84. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
• In my classroom, I turn to Diigo to motivate students to interact with nonfiction text. After setting up free, secure classroom groups and student accounts, I bookmark online texts about current events connected to our social studies or science curriculum. Then, I add a few highlights and annotations to each bookmarked article -- a simple process done from a toolbar installed in any Internet browser -- and mention the articles in class. Drawn by the social nature of reading together, my students start adding their own annotations to our online collection.
• Often, sophisticated conversations develop. After reading an article about mining in Peru, students debated the ethics of the United States owning a company there. (See http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.eom/f/Handout_ReflectingonDiigoAnnotations.pdf.) Students ask and answer one another's questions and highlight bits of text they don't understand. They share opinions or make connections to other content that we're studying -- and eventually bookmark new articles to share with their peers. Diigo provides my students the opportunity to interact with one another and with nonfiction text -- essential skills that middle schoolers struggle with.

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• The article discusses how to get children and young adults to read by making it a social activity.
• One great tool for creating social reading experiences is Diigo (www.diigo.com), a free online application that allows users to add highlights and comments onscreen to any Web-based text. These comments can be seen by anyone using Diigo and are identified with the commenter's user name. Diigo also enables users to bookmark and "tag" with keywords any online articles that they find fascinating. Classes studying topics together can share their reading. Articles tagged by one user become instantly available to another, providing a source for continued study and ongoing conversations.
• The best news is that creating secure student accounts in Diigo is easy. Teachers can form a classroom group that enables students to see only the articles bookmarked and the annotations shared by their teachers and peers — instead of the comments of the entire Diigo community.
• My students read and annotate at all hours of the day — before class, during lunch, or while surfing the Web after dinner — and return to our shared articles time and again to track developing conversations. Their reading has moved from a solitary act to the kind of community-driven practice that resonates with today's teen.
• I started my work with Diigo by introducing students to the characteristics of good conversations. We practiced questioning and respectfully disagreeing with the opinions of others. We studied the differences between digital and face-to-face conversations and regularly rated practice annotations that we added to shared texts. (For guidance on setting criteria for annotations, see http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Social-Bookmarking-and-Annotating.) We reviewed particularly active strands in our Diigo conversations

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• Users can not only import del.icio.us or other bookmarks, they can also update those other services using diigo. In addition, diigo's informational video and screencasts-accessible on its home page-provide a great introduction to social bookmarking. Diigo's secondary features include a rich set of browser tools that allows users to highlight passages and leave comments on Web pages for other diigo users to see (a great way for teachers to effectively assess student assignments). Diigo also lets you send an email or blog post directly from a Web page, automate a daily blog post of your bookmarks with comments, or create blog or site widgets with your bookmarks. Founded in 2005 by Wade Ren.

• • Save bookmarks to Diigo from Safari.
   
  • Search and view bookmarks by tags, recently saved, lists, unread, or full-text search.
   
  • Download bookmarks for offline reading: view complete websites even without an internet connection.
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• Specifically, once the feature is enabled by connecting your Twitter account to Diigo:

   
   
  • Your favorite tweets are automatically saved to Diigo on a daily basis.
   
  • Cached pages for links in the tweets are automatically fetched and saved on Diigo, so you will always have access to them.