Jim Kleinhenz's List: Diigo

• When you highlight a word on any page a drop down menu automatically appears  (see image below) that lets you:

   
   
  • search for the highlighted words on the web with any of four search engines  
  • search for highlighted terms in four social bookmarking systems  
  • do a blog search for highlighted terms  
  • search for your terms in the entire site you are on (Google, Yahoo, Ask  site: search)  
  • search for inbound links to the URL you are on in four different search  engines (including Technorati and Google)  
  • search for your highlighted terms in seven different verticals from local to  TV to stocks
• This drop down menu is also one of many places you can take highlighted text  directly to a blog post in a number of hosted blogging platforms with APIs

• using Diigo on Scribe blogs as test review sheets
• Somehow find a way to use Diigo to assess  student web-log writing without defacing the students’ “intellectual property”  and turning writing into “schooliness.”
• using Diigo Groups (with a separate Diigo login for me, to keep my own bookmarks  separate from my classroom bookmarks).
• Your students will love you (not immediately, but only after they’re  gone–they’re students, after all) for teaching them this great research tool!

  • This seems the best reason to use diigo in the classroom.
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