Diigo for Educators Bookmarking for Collaboration www diigo

Diigo for Educators Bookmarking for Collaboration www. diigo. com/education http: //youtu. be/ml. YXVYTay. Zs Video Introduction to Diigo Assembled by Steve Madsen, Merici College ACT

Co-written by Keith Ozsvath and Sue Waters What is Diigo • Diigo is a free social bookmarking tool that allows users to share online resources like websites and web 2. 0 tools in a private or public group format. • The benefits of using a social bookmarking tool is it allows you to organize and store your bookmarks to an online tool rather than in the browser of your computer. This means you can log into your account, on any device, any time and easily find your bookmarks. • The power of Diigo as a social bookmarking tool lies within the groups feature. A user can create both public and private groups for professional development purposes or perhaps a graduate class, study group, or classroom research project. Anyone with access to a group, has access to all bookmarks, plus special features like tagging and commenting on links. • Diigo also allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. • There are tons of different groups on Diigo, many for professional and educational use.

How to Get Started: Go to www. diigo. com 2. When you click on the link in the activation email you will see a prompt to install the Diigolet. 3. Follow the instructions to install the Diigolet in your web browser’s bookmaks bar.

4. Now close the welcome message and you’ll see My Library. Once you have added links to your Diigo account you can view them any time by logging into your Diigo account on any device, any where!

Annotations Highlighting, Adding a Sticky Note

Organizing Diigo using Tags and Lists • It’s important when you bookmark websites to Diigo that you use tags and lists effectively otherwise eventually you’ll find it becomes increasingly harder to find your links because you’ll end up with a huge list of unordered links. Tags and list add structure to your bookmarks. • Tagging lets you categorize information online your way. • The key to tagging is use good tags, be consistent with your tagging. For example use podcast or podcasts but not both. Join words together to make meaningful tags. Every now and then go through and tidy up your tags, to rename them to more appropriate tags. • Lists work slightly differently than tags. Tags are best for diverse and disparate information whereas lists work best for focused information. Think of lists like folders of your computer. Lists allow you to organize, share and display bookmarks in a specific collection. For example. if I was bookmarking information on podcasting I might tag it as podcast, podcasting and add it to a list on mobile learning. Watch this video about tagging: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=d. KYUE 4 W 6 Z 38

• To create and develop your Professional Learning Network (PLN), you need to join some groups. Diigo’s groups open a world of learning and professional development for the educator. There are so many groups to choose from. From Social Studies to ESL to Ed. Tech. , there are bound to be groups that will interest you. • Click on the My Groups tab at the top of the screen. In the search box, search for groups that will help you build your PLN. Examples of groups Video: Diigo Groups: http: //youtu. be/Jm. J 7 Wyen. Ju. M

• Perhaps you have already thought of creating your own group on Diigo. Go for it! Click on the My Groups tab at the top of the screen. • On the right side of the screen, follow the steps to create your group. • After you set-up all of the details, you will be prompted to invite others. Congratulations! You have created your first group. Begin adding bookmarks you wish to share with group members.

Ideas for Use Here’s some ideas how you can use: • Create a group for your department or team to access and share bookmarks Set up student accounts for your class inside your Teacher Console. Read more about student accounts and how to set up classes here. • Join a public group to create your own professional development and grow your PLN Your Task • If you haven’t joined Diigo yet, head over to Diigo and sign up. • Add the Diigo application to your web browser. • Join some Diigo groups and/or create your own group(s). Write a post (or leave a comment) if the opportunity arises. In particular, join OZ/NZ educators • Choose a relevant web page that could be used for research with a class. Using Diigo, highlight some important bits, add a sticky note, and take a screen shot. .

Diigo Education Account https: //www. diigo. com/education

Flat Connections Global Project

For the Nurdie Educators, not recommended for beginners.

Within a Group, the Educator can create their own specific tags

Happy Diigo –ing!