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Diigo: Web Bookmarking and Collaboration
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Activity Description
What if you want to be able to access your favorite Web sites from any computer and share these with your students? You could use an online social bookmarking Web site that allows you to bookmark, and share specific Web sites students can use to reinforce or review course content, or do research for class assignments without the need for typing in long URLs.
Try using Diigo (see Web site above) to save not only bookmarks online, but also screenshots, documents, highlighted notes, and images. With an educator’s account (see Web Site Example above), you can set up a "learning network" by creating student accounts, grouping students into separate classes or groups for online collaboration, or setting up groups for collaboration with other teachers.
Preparation
- Preview Diigo Web site.
- Select some Web sites you would like to share with the students.
- Bookmark them using Diigo.
How-To
- Discuss the great things students can find on the Internet.
- Discuss some of the difficulties students might encounter--long URLs, losing links to sites you once saw and want to see again, too many bookmarks, Web sites disappearing.
- Demonstrate Diigo showing students how to get an account, how to access bookmarks you share with them and how to add their own.
- Assign student pairs to:
- Sign up for an account
- Find a Web site to share with others
- Create a bookmark it at Diigo
- On a second day, students present their Web sites accessing them using Diigo.
- Create a Diigo group to collaboratively share the resources the students find.
- Students can annotate the sources and then present their new ideas.
- Use this site to collaborate with other teachers.
- Students can find Internet material they want to read, put it in Diigo, then read it later adding annotation.
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- All Levels