Diigo for Educators

Diigo

Digest of Internet Information,

Groups and Other stuff

Diigo provides three powerful services in one:

Research Annotate, Archive, Organize

•Online bookmark: Organize by tags or lists; Access from anywhere,

anytime!

•Archive: Do not just bookmark! Archive pages forever! Make them

searchable too!

•Annotate: Do not just archive! Highlight! Add sticky notes too!

Share Build Personal Learning Network

•Share your annotated pages with your followers on Diigo or elsewhere.

•Get a stream of interesting content by following others you like.

•Interact with others on content of interest

Collaborate Create a Group Knowledge Repository

•Create a private or public group for your company, class, and teams.

•Share findings to the group -- make it the second brain for your team!

•Interact on the web pages in-situ or in the group

What can Diigo do for me?

Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any website

(not yet available on PDFs.)

•Organization of bookmarks and annotations by tags or list.

•Access bookmarks from anywhere, anytime.

•Multiple ways to share

•Join groups (your own PLN) share ideas, collaborate, and

organize resources.

•Search for the most popular content, subscribe to the

most recent, tags, bookmarks or users.

Getting Started with Diigo (after initial registration)

Install Diigo toolbar (a must)

If you are not allowed to install toolbars here is an option:

Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can be set-

up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and

it works for all major browsers. Diigolet allows you to highlight and

add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking.

Diigo – Personal Research Tool

� Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page

� Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists.

� Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text

� Multiple ways to share your

bookmarks and annotations

Diigo – Collaborative Research Tool

� Diigo groups are ideal for team research

� Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks

� Group sticky notes are great for discussion

� Group tag dictionary to enforce tagging consistency

Diigo – Social Content

� Find the most popular bookmarks

on any subject

� Subscribe to the most recent

bookmarks by tags, sites, or

users

� Get recommended content

� Get related content while

browsing

Diigo – Knowledge Sharing

� You are what you annotate.

� Keep in touch with friends through

content

� Find and connect with people

having common interests

� Multiple ways to connect with

people

Diigo – Your Profile

•Upload a photo

•Share information for networking

Diigo – Importing Bookmarks

From other sources

From your browser

http://www.diigo.c

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y_blog

Daily Blog Post

Twitter

Automatically tweet your bookmark

Tag Communities

This is a way for you to find and follow others who are interested in the

same areas (tags) as you.

http://www.diigo.com/tag

Click on a tag of interest and it will take you to a list of all the bookmarks

that contain that tag. You will also be able to find groups that you can

follow with the same interest.

Searching

Diigo has a built-in search engine that

lets you search for bookmarks, people,

and groups

Contacts

You can organize your contacts into

lists for ease of communicating and

sharing information.

Messages

You can communicate with your friends via the message center.

Webslides

Easily turn your Diigo Bookmarks into a slideshow to add to your

website or blog. Visit http://slides.diigo.com/

You will need to be logged into your Diigo

account to add this widget. Follow the

online instructions, copy and paste the

code and you are ready to go.

Groups

This section allows you to follow other groups as well as create them.

In the search box, type in the area of interest and then select in groups

for example: Technology

Additional Resources

http://www.diigo.com/learn_more

http://www.amphi.com/~technology/techtalks/online/nov08/bestpract.htm

http://help.diigo.com/

http://tools4integration.blogspot.com/ Examples of widget use

Diigo Educator Accounts:

•Student accounts for all students (email is optional)

•Students of a the same class are a group (share: group bookmarks and

annotations, and group forums

•Privacy settings: only students and teacher can communicate with each

other.

•Ads are limited to education

“Diigo: is a new kind of online research and collaborative research tool

that integrates tags and folders, highlighting and clipping, sticky notes,

and group-based collaboration, enabling a whole new process of online

knowledge management, learning, and teaching in the information age.”

More information visit: Diigo Help

Educator’s Toolbar

Teacher Console gives you the ability to manage your students/classes.

Groups

Once you have successfully

created your group, you have the

option of creating student accounts

to the group

Teacher Console

Once groups are created your Teacher Console will look like this. Here

you can manage your group accounts by adding members, printing list

of members, or deleting them.

Groups

From the Group page, students can post a bookmark, start a topic

or view the previously saved bookmarks. The speech bubbles

indicate that a topic/discussion has been started while the book

indicates that this is a bookmarked site.

Discussion

Bookmark

Student to Student Use

Not only are students included in the original group, but sub-groups can

be created for classroom use. Here David Sara Shea makeup a group.

They can see each other’s highlights and sticky notes and even

comment back to one another. It also allows the students to share with

more than one group if needed.

Student Bookmarks

1. In the description

area they can post

the description of

the website or

thoughts and ideas

on how to use this

website in their

research/project. 2.

Adding tags helps

them easily locate

and organize their

information. 3.

Allows access to be

shared with a

specific group(s).

Student to Teacher

If a student has started a discussion then the teacher can actively see it

and respond with suggestions or comments to help guide their inquiry.

Student to Teacher

Teachers can also add comments to the

student’s sticky notes. Giving them ideas

and suggestions for their project.

Teacher to Teacher

Schools can set up groups to where websites are shared amongst a

group of teachers. This way you reduce printing out copies for all staff

members. By using Diigo all the teachers can view the same web

resource with the highlighted areas of important key points.