1. Using Diigo in the Classroom
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
2011 MECA Conference
Jackson, Mississippi
February 8, 2011
4. What is Social Bookmarking?
A Web-based service to share
bookmarks or favorites
A collection of favorites – yours and
everyone else's – Delicious
A method for Internet users to
organize, store, manage and search
for bookmarks of resources online –
Wikipedia
10. Diigo is three services in one
A simple place to store, access and
share your bookmarks
A research and collaboration tool
A Knowledge-sharing community and
social content site
A Social Information Network (SIN)
15. Diigo Features
Highlighting
Functional commenting and real conversations
Send bookmarks to Facebook or Twitter with 1 click
Simultaneously bookmark things to Diigo and Delicious
Bookmark and search entire Web pages
Create classes or groups
Import and export bookmarks
Diigo toolbar, Diigo extension, and Diigolet
Diigo for iPhone and Android
Auto blog post
20. Diigolet
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 is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you
to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to
simple bookmarking.
http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet
36. Diigo Educators Accounts
www.diigo.com/education
Provided to K-12 & higher-education educators
Create student accounts for an entire class
Automatically set up a Diigo group for students
that allows group bookmarks and annotations, and
group forums
Pre-set privacy settings to student accounts and
allows communications for teachers and students
only
Limit the content of ads related to education
37. Student Accounts
Classmates in the same class are automatically
added as friends with one another to facilitate
communication.
The Library view shows a student all of his
bookmarks and annotations. Teacher can view this
data in the Teacher Console.
Students can only communicate with their friends
and teachers and comment on each others postings.
This is a great way to give feedback and ask
questions.
Student profiles will not be indexed for People
Search, nor made available to public search engines
40. Using Diigo in the Classroom
• Students and teachers can use Diigo as a
personal research tool
• Students and teachers can access bookmarks from
anywhere, anytime
• Students and teachers can join groups, share ideas,
collaborate, and organize resources
• Students and teachers can search for the most popular
content, subscribe to the most recent, tags, bookmarks
of users
• Teachers can have students to share course-related
bookmarked resources, literature reviews source
archives, group projects and activities, and WebQuest
resources
41. Using Diigo in the Classroom
• Teachers can add comments to the student’s sticky
notes and give them ideas and suggestions to their
project
• Schools can set up groups to where academic
resources are shared amongst a group of teachers.
• Teachers or curriculum writers can annotate curriculum
documents and add sticky notes and comments
• Teachers can annotate state education agency memos
and reports for their administrators
• Teachers can create a slideshow of clickable websites
grabbed from students’ bookmarks
• Students and teachers can publish their annotations
and comments to their blogs or embed linkrolls and
tagrolls onto a wiki or website
43. Going Mobile
Diigo Power Note for Android Diigo Offline Reader for iPhone/iPod Touch
Source: http://www.diigo.com
44. The End
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