Diigo 2009

1. 21 ST CENTURY RESEARCHING WITH DIIGO Jennifer Carrier Dorman

2. Diigo <ul><li>Diigo = D igest of I nternet I nformation, G roups and O ther stuff </li></ul><ul><li>Diigo is two services in one </li></ul><ul><ul><li>it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. </li></ul></ul>http://www.diigo.com/

3. Social Bookmarking Evolved - Diigo

4. <ul><li>What are educators saying about Diigo? </li></ul>Diigo Buzz

7. Get The Most Out of Diigo

8. Diigo – Personal Research Tool <ul><li>Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page </li></ul><ul><li>Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists. </li></ul><ul><li>Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text </li></ul><ul><li>Multiple ways to share your bookmarks and annotations </li></ul>

9. Diigo – Collaborative Research <ul><li>Diigo groups are ideal for team research </li></ul><ul><li>Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks </li></ul><ul><li>Group sticky notes are great for discussion </li></ul><ul><li>Group tag dictionary to enforce tagging consistency </li></ul>

10. Diigo – Social Content <ul><li>Find the most popular bookmarks on any subject </li></ul><ul><li>Subscribe to the most recent bookmarks by tags, sites, or users </li></ul><ul><li>Get recommended content </li></ul><ul><li>Get related content while browsing </li></ul>

11. Diigo – Knowledge-Sharing <ul><li>You are what you annotate. </li></ul><ul><li>Keep in touch with friends through content </li></ul><ul><li>Find and connect with people having common interests </li></ul><ul><li>Multiple ways to connect with people </li></ul>

13. <ul><li>Creating Your Account </li></ul><ul><li>www.diigo.com </li></ul>Registering for Diigo

14. Join Diigo

15. Create Your Account

16. No Student E-Mail – No Problem <ul><li>Two options: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Apply for the Diigo educator upgrade to create student accounts without student e-mails. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>G-Mail Trick http ://snipurl.com/googletricks </li></ul></ul>

17. Create Your Profile <ul><li>Create a Diigo avatar </li></ul>

18. Avatar Options for Students <ul><li>http://www.befunky.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.mrpicassohead.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.myoats.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.picnik.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.buildyourwildself.com / </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.dumpr.net/ </li></ul>

19. Add Basic Information <ul><li>Add some basic information or elect to skip </li></ul>

20. Find Friends <ul><li>Search you e-mail address books for friends already using Diigo or skip </li></ul>

21. Activate Your Account <ul><li>Diigo will send you an e-mail requesting that you click on a link to verify your account </li></ul>

22. Activate Your Account <ul><li>Click on the link or copy/paste the URL address to verify your account </li></ul>

23. Getting Started with Diigo

24. Getting Started With Diigo <ul><li>After verifying, you will be invited to install the Diigo toolbar and learn more about Diigo’s capabilities </li></ul>

25. Installing the Toolbar <ul><li>Download the toolbar. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Click the "Install Diigo Toolbar" button. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Run DiigoToolbar. exe. </li></ul><ul><li>Restart your browser. </li></ul>

26. Not Allowed to Install Toolbars? <ul><li>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. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet </li></ul></ul>

27. Post to Diigo Browser Button

28. Import Bookmarks from the Web <ul><li>Already have bookmarks hosted on another social bookmarking site? Diigo will import all your bookmarks. </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_all </li></ul>

29. Import Bookmarks from Browser

30. Export Bookmarks <ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/tools/export </li></ul>

31. Cross-Post Your Bookmarks <ul><li>Aren’t ready to give up that Del.icio.us account? Diigo will cross-post all your bookmarks. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>https://secure.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others </li></ul></ul>

32. <ul><li>Processing the Web </li></ul>Bookmarking and Annotating

33. Using the Toolbar

34. Annotating with Diigo

35. <ul><li>Share Your Research Across the Web </li></ul>Publish Your Bookmarks

36. Daily Blog Post <ul><li>Enables you to automatically post entries to your blog(s) containing your latest Diigo annotated bookmarks </li></ul><ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/blog_this/daily_blog </li></ul></ul>

37. Adding Blogs to Your Diigo Account <ul><li>You can add multiple blogs to your Diigo account </li></ul>

38. Creating Blog Post Jobs <ul><li>Select your job preferences and submit </li></ul>

39. Auto Blog Post

40. Blog Directly from Diigo <ul><li>So now as you browse along, you simply highlight and add sticky notes on anything that interests you, and, afterwards, you can easily incorporate your highlights and notes to your blog with one-click "Send to Blog". </li></ul><ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/blog_this/config </li></ul></ul><ul><li>All you have to do is add your blog to Diigo </li></ul>

41. Send to Blog, Twitter, Facebook

42. Twitter This <ul><li>When you check “Twitter This” when bookmarking, you can cross post to your Twitter feed </li></ul>

43. Widgetize Your Diigo <ul><li>Diigo has built-in widgets to broadcast your Diigo Tags and Links </li></ul>

44. Diigo Tagroll

45. Diigo Linkroll

46. “Add to Diigo” Widget <ul><li>Encourage people to add your page / blog post to Diigo, and help to increase exposure for your site / blog posts and drive more traffic to your site / blog! </li></ul>

47. <ul><li>Tag & Site Communities, Power Searching </li></ul>Diigo Features

48. Site Communities <ul><li>Aggregate users who annotate the same website & build meaningful reader communities </li></ul><ul><li>Discover and connect with other readers interested in the same site. </li></ul>

49. Site Communities Watchlist & WebSlides View

50. Tag Communities <ul><li>Aggregate users who annotate sites with the same tags </li></ul><ul><li>Discover and connect with other readers interested in the same site and explore related tags and groups </li></ul>

51. Tag Communities

52. Searching with Diigo <ul><li>Diigo has a built-in search engine that lets you search for bookmarks, people, and groups </li></ul>

53. Diigo Search Results

54. <ul><li>Contacts, Contact Lists, & Messages </li></ul>Diigo Features

55. Contacts Lists <ul><li>You can organize your contacts to lists to make it easier to share resources and conversations </li></ul>

56. Contact Lists <ul><li>Add contacts to a list </li></ul>

57. Messages / Conversations

58. <ul><li>Discover New Learning </li></ul>Diigo Features

59. Discover New Content <ul><li>Use the Discover features to track your friend’s bookmarks, your site Watchlists, and bookmarks recommended to you by your learning community </li></ul>

60. Watchlist <ul><li>Use the Watchlist to subscribe to tags, sites, and users </li></ul>

61. Grow Your Learning Network <ul><li>Find other users who are similar to you based on bookmarking and annotation patterns </li></ul>

62. <ul><li>Lists and Groups </li></ul>Diigo Features

63. Diigo List

64. Create a List

65. Publish a List

66. WebSlides Presentation View

67. Interact through WebSlides View

68. Create a WebSlides Presentation <ul><li>http://slides.diigo.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>To create WebSlides, users simply enter a feed or list of bookmarks and add background music or voice narration. </li></ul><ul><li>By clicking button, the list transforms into a slideshow, bringing Web pages and user comments to life. </li></ul><ul><li>All you and your reader need is a web browser. </li></ul>

69. Ways to Create a WebSlides

70. WebSlides for Bookmarks

71. WebSlides for RSS Feed

73. Diigo Groups <ul><li>Diigo Groups Video Tutorial http://snipurl.com/diigogroups </li></ul>

74. Diigo Group

75. Group Bookmarks

76. Joining and Creating Groups

77. Create a Group

78. Management <ul><li>Group moderators can customize the level of privacy and accessibility for the group </li></ul>

79. Managing Group Members

80. Invite New Members

81. Managing the Group Forum

82. Tagging Protocols Diigo Groups Video Tutorial http://snipurl.com/diigogroups

83. Group Tag Dictionary

84. <ul><li>Security Features for Teachers and Students </li></ul>Diigo Teacher Console

85. Diigo Educator Accounts

86. Diigo Education Resources <ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/teacher_entry/console </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/education </li></ul><ul><li>http://help.diigo.com/Diigo_Educator_Account_-_FAQ </li></ul><ul><li>http://help.diigo.com/Diigo_Educator_Account_-_Getting_Started </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] – for specific help questions </li></ul>

87. Apply for Educator Status <ul><li>Sign into Diigo </li></ul><ul><li>Visit the Diigo Education Page </li></ul><ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/education </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Complete the Application Form </li></ul><ul><li>Your application will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail once your Diigo account has been upgraded to Educator Status </li></ul>

89. What Does Education Status Mean? <ul><li>You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation) </li></ul><ul><li>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. </li></ul><ul><li>Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them. </li></ul><ul><li>Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors. </li></ul>

90. Security Settings – Under 13 <ul><li>Under 13 accounts – students are unable to customize their profiles (no image uploads, etc.) </li></ul>

91. Teacher Console <ul><li>The Teacher Console will appear in your profile list </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.diigo.com/teacher_entry/console </li></ul>

92. Diigo Education Pioneer Badge <ul><li>You can get a Diigo Education Pioneer badge for your blog, wiki, or website in the Teacher Console </li></ul>

93. Create a Class Group

94. Class Groups

95. Convert Existing Groups <ul><li>Open the group </li></ul><ul><li>Click "manage group" </li></ul><ul><li>Click “group overview” </li></ul><ul><li>Under group details, click "edit" </li></ul><ul><li>Change the category to "Education - K12" </li></ul><ul><li>The group will be upgraded to a "class group" with ad-free status, secure student accounts, and will appear within the Teacher Console </li></ul>

96. Add Members

97. Adding Students WITHOUT E-Mails

98. Add Students with Existing Diigo Accounts

99. Print Member Login Information

101. Manage Members

102. “Graduating” Student Accounts <ul><li>Teacher-created student accounts can be converted to a full account upon teacher request </li></ul>

103. How Are Educators Using Diigo? <ul><li>Gather and collaborate on online findings. </li></ul><ul><li>Use annotations to guide students to the most important information on a site, with a discussion starter or question posted on the sticky note. </li></ul><ul><li>Create a slideshow of clickable web sites grabbed from your bookmarks. </li></ul><ul><li>Publish your annotations/comments to your blogs or embed linkrolls and tagrolls onto a wiki or website. </li></ul>See http://tinyurl.com/5k4yqw for more integration ideas

Diigo 2009

Jennifer Dorman

Diigo 2009