DiigoDiigo Tutorial By: Lori Spadea
Diigo“ A cloud based personal information management system….to help collect and access a variety of information.” (from the intro on their website
Diigo.com)
What is Diigo? Allows users to bookmark Highlight Sticky note And save websites to a Diigo cloud Access with any computer Or Mobile device
What for? Personal e reading or information you
want to store can be saved by tags You can share and annotate things for a
group to share You can work on a project together with
your group It saves in a cloud so you can access
anytime with any device and continue working on that project or page
Step 1 Go to Diigo.com, click on get started, and sign up
for a free account
Step 2 Enter the required information
Step 3a Look for the Email to confirm your
account
Step 3b Activate your account by going to the
link
Step 4 Add the Diigolet to your bookmark toolbar
by clicking and dragging it up
You are now ready to use Diigo! You can highlight text on a website and even add a sticky
note
Easy to use! Once its on your bookmark bar, click on
it when you are on a website you want to save or highlight, the menu pops up.
How to access Next time you go to your Diigo page, everything
you saved is there, highlights, sticky notes, annotations, and all in My Library
Diigo Diigo is a great collaboration tool for groups to work
on the same project Diigo is a great tool for individual research Diigo is a great tool for curating information you find
on a particular subject area It is a great organizational tool for teachers to share
internet information with students. Teachers can highlight and tag pertinent information on the page.
It is easy to use and very similar to the way the kindle highlight function is used, plus bonus functions.
Storing in a cloud for access anywhere and ability to access by a group are also bonus features.