Why Use Diigo in Education?
Diigo lets you do more than just
bookmark web pages online. For instance, if you install the Diigo toolbar, or
toolbar button, you have the ability to highlight text and pictures in a
variety of colors, or add sticky notes to a bookmarked page. With this feature
you can annotate web pages with thoughts, ideas or additional information. All
these notes are saved for the next time you access the saved bookmark, and
anyone else you share the bookmark with, (students or teachers), will also see
your annotations. It is a great way to focus attention on a large article.
Diigo lets you take screenshots of
bookmarked pages to visually remind yourself of the page content, and archive
the page so that if the content changes, or is removed, you will always have
the original page that you bookmarked. Saved sites can be tagged for easy
searching, organized into lists, or presented as a slideshow. Your Diigo
bookmarks can be public, or private, and there are numerous options for sharing
with individuals, groups or social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook. A
recent iPhone App will even allow you and your students to access stored
bookmarks on an iPod Touch in the classroom. With the iPhone app you can
download bookmarks for offline browsing. So, you really can achieve a lot by
using social bookmarking in education.
How Can I Use Diigo With My Class?
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Diigo's commitment to helping teachers
use social bookmarking in education is evident with their educator accounts. If
you join Diigo, and apply for a free educator upgrade, you become eligible for
some additional features created just for teachers. You can bulk create student
accounts, with or without the use of student email addresses. Teachers are
often concerned about the safety of their students online, and rightly so. With
Diigo Educator accounts, the privacy settings, by default, limit communication
to that of classmates and teachers only. Lastly, students in the same class are
automatically set up as a group, so all saved bookmarks can instantly be shared
with peers.
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he real bonus of using social bookmarking
with your class is the ease that you can work on project based learning tasks.
Teachers can share annotated bookmarks with a class to research a given topic.
Students can perform their own research, and share a useful website with the
class. Bookmarks can be accessed just as easily at home, as at school, and
online discussions can be had over the merit of a suggested site, or its
usefulness to the class project. Bookmarks can be organized within group to
cover several different projects, and the chance to archive for next year's
class is a great time saver for teachers.
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There is a lot to like about Diigo, as its
potential in the classroom is clear to see. There should be no debate about
whether or not there should be social bookmarking in education. The opportunity
to give your students the opportunity to learn in a safe, collaborative
environment such as this, is something that all educators should consider.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-methods-tips/62228-using-the-bookmarking-and-annotation-site-diigo-in-your-classroom/
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