Diigo

= = =Communication Tool: Diigo= Group Members: Hannah Wilson and Erin Stalker



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**-Brief introduction-**
Diigo is a collaborative bookmarking tool where you can save websites and documents (ex. PDFs), highlight content within websites, and add sticky notes to saved websites with personal annotations. With this site you can also create groups to share websites and organize particular sites according to a common trait. This site is accessible with any computer with internet.

- Diigo is much more convenient than storing bookmarks on your computer. - Diigo allows you to discover relevant information by following tags applied by other Diigo users. - Diigo is unique with its highlighting and sticky note features.
 * //**Advantages**//

//Efficiency// - Diigo is very efficient when it comes to keeping track of useful or favored websites. It allows you to keep all of your saved sites in one organized website. This site is also great because it allows you to annotate and highlight within a website. This is a great feature because before, in order to annotate or highlight anything from a website, you had to print the page and do it manually. This site keeps everything organized and in one easy-to-use place for you. //Effectiveness// - Diigo is considered effective because it requires students to explore various sites in order to be able to utilize the tool features (clip, sticky note, highlight, etc.). //Enhancement// - I would not say that Diigo can enhance learning particularly, but it does enhance the ability to save useful portions of a website for future reference.

- Diigo requires technology proficiency. - Diigo currently has a smaller user base than some other social bookmarking tools, so there are not as many resources from other people to explore on Diigo yet compared to other bookmarking tools. - Distracting ads on side of page
 * //**Disadvantages (limitations)**//

**-Application in the classroom-**
As a teacher, this tool would be very useful with keeping track of various teaching websites and resources. To integrate this tool into the curriculum, students researching a particular topic on various websites can highlight, annotate, and save the websites in Diigo in order to keep track of all sites that are potential resources. This could work particularly well with a high school level class rather than an elementary level class because the older students will be more likely to do a research project and they could benefit from this tool more than younger students. The students can also save their sites as a group on Diigo so that the whole class including the teacher can access the sites for information. One activity example might be that the class is researching Global Climate Change. Each student could be responsible for finding 2 or 3 informative sites on the topic. After highlighting important information and maybe making some annotations, the students would then save the sites in the class group so that the whole class can use the resource.

**-Tutorial video on YouTube-**
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**//-//Key features shown in the tutorial//-//**
- Overview of the Diigo Tool Highlighting allows one to have the needed information from websites at their finger tips. Sticky notes are available when one needs to mark an important web page or information from the page. After highlighting and sticky notes, all the information that was highlighted and sticky noted, will be available to you in your index section of the tool. When ever you need the previous information, all you have to do is go search the index section and the information will be there. Clipping allows one to clip different parts of information from different websites and collaborates them into one document. Also, there is a way to blog about certain topics. Then, one can share them with the rest of the Diigo users.

**-Useful Resources-**
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