Digging Deeper With:

Presented By: Jessica Ruthsatz

What is Diigo?

Diigo = Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff“Awesome cloud-based information management tool that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices.”

Click HERE for a comprehensive Diigo Tutorial

The “Big 3” Diigo uses in a Secondary Classroom:

What are Other educators saying about Diigo? "Diigo turns reading and research into a social

activity. Conversations emerge right on the page and spill over into the classroom.

Students love it. They not only engage with the material, they engage with each other.”

Michael Wesch, PhDAssistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Digital Ethnography Working Group Kansas State University

What does Research look like in your classroom?

Online or library?

Paper or Online?

Annotations and Data?

Individual or Group?

Teacher/Student Interaction?

Ready to Take your research from piles of these… ?

To this completely organized online format:

Getting Started:

Click Here to sign up for a diigo account

Consider for a moment what email to use…notifications of research updates on student accounts will be sent to you so school email is preferable and a must if you want to upgrade to the Educational Account.

What are Educational Accounts?These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators. Once your Diigo Educator application is approved, your account will be upgraded to have these additional features:

You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation)Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums.Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them.

Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors.

it can take 48 hrs to be approved, so today we will do the generic account

For more info visit: http://www.diigo.com/education

Create Your Profile/Basic Info

You can also opt to skip each of these steps

Activate Your Account

Diigo will send you an e-mail requesting that you click on a link to verify your account

Activate Your Account

Click on the link or copy/paste the URL address to verify your account

Installing Diigo Toolbar or Diigolet

After verifying, you will be invited to install the Diigo toolbar and learn more about Diigo capabilities

Diigo Toolbar:

The Diigo toolbar is more “feature-rich” including all the buttons you see below as a toolbar in your browser. I especially like the diigo sidebar that allows you to open your library in a micro setting to see what you have posted. I prefer this for ease of use, however it does not work with all browsers…

Diigolet

While the toolbar has more features you may not be able to install it with your browser.

If not, opt for the Diigolet: it can be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and it works for all

major browsers. (http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet)Diigolet is a "super-bookmarklet” that allows you to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking.

Getting Started…

For the comprehensive tutorial on Highlighting, Bookmarking, Snapshots and more click Here!

Take 3 minutes and practice with your toolbar highlight..check you library and see what you’ve posted.

Groups:

How to join or create a group: click on Groups in Blue

search for: “HC Diigo Presentation Group”

Then click “Join this Group”--you’ll see I have posted a question..click on “Uses” and respond.

Creating a Group

Feel free to set up a group for your classroom…

Collaboration and Sharing

Sharing to Groups Tutorial http://www.diigo.com/FlashTutorial/group/group.htm

Now try bookmarking an annotated web page to your groups…

Interacting with Students on Diigo

Commenting

Liking

Sticky Note

Hint: Ask Questions and Require Feedback

Collaboration ideas:

Have students create a group with their research partner so they can share research seamlessly.

Require them to comment/post on each other's research as well.

Sample files:

Diigo Research Journal Instructions

Diigo Research Journal Tutorial

Troubleshooting With DiigoHave clear posting guidelines/ex/visuals

Patience and Flexibility

“We’re all in this Together”…

Remember your management capabilities:

How can diigo transform your Classes’ Research Experience?