I didn't originally join up for the social aspects. I just wanted an online place to save bookmarks and access them from anywhere (home, office, on-the-road...) Now, I'm also discovering neat new resources through my Diigo "friends" and the groups that I've joined.
The link below will take you to some web sites that can help you learn more about DIIGO!
My Diigo Bookmarking bookmarks!
How I'm using DIIGO:
- Easy/convenient way of storing my favorite personal and professional web sites. (I can mark web sites as private if I don't want anybody seeing my links to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction. Oops - secret's out!)
- Join groups, such as "Teacher-Librarians" to learn more about websites that other teaching librarians are using.
- Collect resources that I can share with students in different subject areas.
- Easily share groups of web sites with others (like the link that I created above).
- Saving a web page. Let's say that you go to CNN.com, and you see a funny error on the web page. You know that this will be gone when they catch the error, or just change to a newer headline. A bookmark will only take you to the most current version of the web page, but you can take a picture of the page and have proof of what you saw!
- Highlighting text and inserting comments
- "Read later" - this marks pages that you intend to read more completely, but don't have time at the moment.
- Educator tools - educators can upgrade to an educator account. This allows you to create temporary accounts and groups for your students.
