Reflection #4 Diigo

I had never even heard of Diigo before, much less used it, so I learned a lot about it. I like being able to bookmark sites. Diigo has a search feature that could be neat. I searched for online learning, but came up with no useful information. However, you do have the option to search your site and the bookmarkings of others by name, email, tags, site, and URL. I like the message option, which also allows you to add it to a blog (Easyblog). Diigo allows you to import your bookmarks from Delicious, Simpy, Blinklist, Connotea, and Furl. Another thing I learned is that you can highlight and use sticky notes to make notes on web pages. You can also make notes, upload pictures, files, and videos. It states that even after a time it remains as it would if you had highlighted it in a printed book. According to Diigo, when you bookmark a page you can “upload the page and capture a snapshot”. The web pages are stored in your Diigo account, so you can access them from any Internet access. You can share your bookmarkings or keep them private. You can use Diigo to collaborate with your team or group by sharing with each other your findings. This gives each member time to check out the sites prior to group meetings. This would be a great tool for an assignment for students to collaborate for a class project. The students could upload their portion of the project in a Word document, upload their resources, make notes and share them, bookmark web sites they find that may help each other, and leave sticky notes for their teammates. You can also send all of your stuff to your blog, Twitter, Facebook and others. This allows you to “archive multiple versions of the same URL”. Diigo could really help when a student has multiple classes and has to do a lot of Internet research. Diigo could really help keep things straight and organized. I do like how you can get updates whenever someone in your group adds a bookmark. This helps me stay on top of things. This assignment was great to show me a great tool I could include in my future classes in my school and also if I get to teach. I plan to learn more about Diigo and use it now and in the future. Click here to access my Diigo assignment.