diigo

Diigo is a site for Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is the concept of taking your favorite websites, bookmarking them on a website, and then sharing them with other people. Many of the Social Bookmarking sites offer the opportunity to join groups to share your links with. For a quick tutorial view Social Bookmarking in Plain Englis.

There are several options for social bookmarking, but I personally have come to prefer Diigo. The reason is that there are several features of Diigo that are missing from other Social Bookmarking Sites. With Diigo you are able to highlight text on a webpage and even add post-it notes. You can create list to organize your links by. You can join different groups based on the type of links being shared. To learn more about Diigo, visit their page with a video tutorial.

Being social on Social Bookmarking is by no means necessary. We all normally save favorite links to our favorites in our Internet Browser. The problem is that over time, we end up changing computers and then losing our favorite sites. With Social Bookmarking, your favorite links are available anywhere you have an internet connection.

Using Diigo can help you organize your links to improve your teaching. You can create lists for different subjects/content that you teach and apply links to a certain list. There is also an option to mark a website for “Read Later” in case you just don’t have time when originally visited the site. You can also “tag” websites with keywords based on what the website is about. You can then search your “tags” to look at those websites. It sure beats organizing everything in folders.

When you decide to start using Diigo, it will install a toolbar in your browser. This makes using the website a lot easier. I hate toolbars, but I love having this one in my browser. It truly makes the Internet much more usable.


Tools for the 21st Century Teacher - By: Michael Zimmer