Diigo

= Communication Tool: Diigo = Group Members: Joe Keith and Mike Park



Brief introduction of the tool
Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows users that are signed up to bookmark and tag webpages. It allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific parts of the page or even the whole page. These can be kept private or shared within a group or even forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." Diigo allows for a group or person to better utilize their online experience. Being able to actively annotate a website surely increases the effectiveness of the site itself. Diigo itself is efficient, as is more a downloadable tool bar, rather than a book marking tool, such as Delicious. Also, a Diigo account can be made through Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, or Yahoo!. Also, being able to do group work make this another excellent networking tool, such as Google Groups. Being able to annotate websites is also helpful in that there is less need to print of countless pages from the web. Diigo enhances any group project by allowing members to discuss resources, as well as annotate resources together. Overall, Diigo seems like a really good bookmarking website to use but there can be a few disadvantages while using Diigo. Some of the information that people may highlight on their website can be opinionated. There can be bias in some of the information that is highlighted. The user base of Diigo is really small and some people are not able to install Diigo onto their home computers. Also changes that are made by others are remained on the page and this may not be too beneficial. Overall Diigo is a pretty good source to use.
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Application of the tool in your subject area
Diigo is a great tool for any subject area. For example, in the Math classroom, a teacher could set up an interactive group test using google forms. Groups could then, through Diigo, share their work for each problem by adding digital sticky notes to the google form, or page which holds the form. In this way, students could share their work for the test problems, and come to a consensus on how they will answer the question.

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Diigo offers many helpful tools and abilities, as discussed in the above video from YouTube:


 * Highlight and annotate webpages
 * Bookmark pages
 * Organize and share collections of bookmarks
 * Groups support allows discussing and sharing of bookmarks and annotations
 * Makes website suggestions
 * Connects users to members with similar interests

Useful Resources
[] - This website is a how to use guide of Diigo. This means that it is probably the best website to go to if you are having trouble using Diigo and want some help with it. It is the instruction manual and has the answers to all the questions and shows you how to use each aspect of Diigo with the tabs on the left. [] - This is a blog that someone created that teachers people how to use Diigo. This blog is great if you are someone that does not know how to use Diigo and if you want a brief overview of what Diigo is. It does not give specifics but does acknowledge all the important aspects of Diigo. [] - I think this website is very useful if you are having trouble with Diigo. It is basically a PowerPoint that was created to help people that are having trouble with using some of the components of Diigo. It is very useful for beginners. It basically starts from step with which is downloading Diigo to creating a count and goes into how to use Diigo itself. There are many steps and it goes really slowly so I feel this is a great resource.