Lisa Sjogren's presentation introduced the social bookmarking tool Diigo. It covered how Diigo allows users to bookmark and annotate webpages, share bookmarks in groups, and embed bookmarks and tags on websites. The objectives were to remember, mark, and share websites using Diigo, explore its tools, join a collaborative group, and build individual Diigo accounts. Ways to use Diigo in classrooms included generating website lists for students, keeping resources online for access anywhere, and creating student accounts for controlled research groups.

1. diigo
Lisa Sjogren

2. First Things, First

3. Introductory Activity
Answer the following question:
How do you conduct research with your
students?
What tools do you use to aide your student’s
research?
Discuss your answer with your neighbor, be
prepared to share.

4. Today’s Objectives
• Remembering, marking and sharing websites.
• Explore particular tools available in Diigo
• Join the C4 Group
• Spend some self-exploration time building
your diigo account.

5. About Diigo

6. About Diigo
• diigo = Digest of Internet Information,
Groups, and Other Stuff
• diigo is two services in one:
• it is a research and collaborative research
tool
• a knowledge-sharing community and
social content site.

7. 5 Reasons diigo is better
than del.icio.us
1. Highlighting
2. Save bookmarks, regardless of where you
are, or what browser you are using.
3. Comments that actually are worth it.
4. Send bookmarks to multiple locations
with one click
5. Keep your delicious account.

8. Bookmarking Basics

9. What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a method for
Internet users to organize, store, manage and
search for bookmarks of resources online.
Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves
aren't shared, merely bookmarks that
reference them.
From Wikipedia

10. Install the Diigolet
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

11. The Firefox Plug-In
• Currently not ‘approved’ in District 279
• Request has been submitted to put into the
software portal.
• Will email C participants when it is
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available for download.
• Tools that use plug-in are indicated(*)

12. Bookmarking
Indicate if private or unread
Add a description
Tag based on content
Finish by saving bookmark

13. Annotating a Webpage

14. Sending to Social Media*

15. Groups

16. What are bookmarking groups?
• Diigo Groups provides a collaborative
research and learning tool that allows any
group of people to pool their findings
through group bookmarks, highlights, sticky
notes, and forum.
• Can be part of professional groups and/or
teacher-student groups.

17. Join the C Group 4
http://groups.diigo.com/group/c4-model-of-
learning
• Benefits:
• Able to share resources with other
group members.
• Able to have a conversation about
different weblinks.

18. Once you are a part of a group

19. Setting up a Class Group
• Visit http://www.diigo.com/education
• Request status of account to be upgraded
to an educators account.
• You will be given access to a teacher
console.
• Utilize skills learned later this week to
collect student usernames.

20. Using Social Bookmarking
in the Classroom

21. How do we use this in our classroom?
• Generate a list of websites for students.
• Keep your resources in multiple locations,
as they are always on the web.
• Create student accounts to have controlled
research groups.

22. Auto-posting to your blog
https://secure.diigo.com/blog_this/daily_blog
• enables you to post new annotated
bookmarks to your blog daily.
• Able to add multiple blogs.

23. Webslides*
http://slides.diigo.com/
How it is useful?
• Provide a quick briefing, a simple
tutorial or guided tour on any subject.
• Can add music and/or voice narration.
http://slides.diigo.com/list/christyinsdesign/
ms-science

24. Embedding webslides into a website

25. Advanced Topics

26. Feeding del.icio.us
http://secure.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others
1. Select the service
2. Import your account information
3. Check the account to make sure it is valid
4. Save
After you set up- it will post to both.

27. Embedding tagrolls and
link rolls
http://www.diigo.com/tools/tagroll
• Shows list of your most common tags.
http://www.diigo.com/tools/linkrolls
• Display links that are tag(s) specific and/or
with your annotations only.
• When clicked readers will see your
annotations on the webpage.

28. How to embed
• Copy embed code and paste into your
blog, moodle, or any other web 2.0 that
allows embedding.
• Similar to what is seen on
http://youtube.com

29. Site Communities and
Tag Communities
http://www.diigo.com/community/sites
• Aggregate users who annotate the same
website/tags and build meaningful reader
communities
• Discover and connect with other readers
interested in the same site/tags.

30. Further Information

31. Discussion Forums
• Located on the Moodle Course
• How could diigo be used in the
classroom?
• How could teachers collaborate with
diigo?
• How could cross curricular activities be
developed using diigo?

32. After the Fact
http://moodle.district279.org/moodle/
course/view.php?id=763
http://help.diigo.com
http://help.diigo.com/teacher-account/faq