Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that allows teachers and students to: 1) annotate and organize web resources into a personal online library for easy access from any device; 2) share bookmarks, notes, and annotations with others to enable collaboration; and 3) build group knowledge repositories and student groups to facilitate curation of research and higher-level thinking.

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4. What can Diigo do for you?
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Read more effectively with annotation tools
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Build your personal library in the cloud, with links, pages, notes, pictures
etc, never to be lost, and ready to be accessed anywhere.
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Say goodbye to broken links and lost treasures
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Provide feedback and catch attention with annotation or
screenshots Want to draw attention to a particular paragraph to your
Twitter followers? Highlight it and tweet. Want to comment on a student’s
writing? Use sticky notes for inline commenting. Want to provide feedback
on a web design? Capture the page and mark it up.
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Organize your information as little or as much as you want.
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Share information as much or as little as you want
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Enable better collaboration on information for any group, large or
small. Too little or too much sharing with email? Build a group knowledge
repository

5. Why this social bookmarking tool?
• It is easy, yet comprehensive

6. How easy? Make an account and
install the Diigo or Diigolet Toolbar
With a simple click!

7. That is it!
Simply open it whenever you want to
use it for research or to look through
bookmarked/highlighted materials.

9. Build your
own library
of resources
while surfing
the Internet

10. or by joining groups (think PLC)

11. Create student groups

12. Collaborate!
All student research is shared

13. Think higher level thinking skills

14. Moving from Bibliographies…
…to
Curation.
Student
work is
transparent!

15. Holds highlights and comments on
Internet sources

17. Diigo.com
for social bookmarking
on steroids