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Upon popular request, we have just implemented a cool feature for Twitter fans: "Save Favorite Tweets". With a 2-step simple setup, you can begin to automatically save your favorite tweets to your Diigo library on a daily basis. Best of all, cached pages for links in the tweets will also be automatically fetched and saved on Diigo, so you can always access the archived pages. Here is how to get started:

Diigo has decided to go with free and paid accounts ($5/month). It seems the biggest impact on student accounts will be that there is a limit on how much highlighting they can do (50/month). Premium accounts will allow you to save an electronic copy of a web page (screen shot) and images.

Comparison of diigo and delicious

This is an example of a book review that I had my students annotate together. Here are the instructions I gave them: This is an example of a book review. Use your Diigo toolbar to highlight and comment on the review. Focus on stylistic and organizational choices that the writer makes, the voice that she develops, and the content that she covers. We will use this as a model for book reviews that we will write about our independent reads.

Create websites and wikis

This was originally bookmarked by Reanea Wilson in the Diigo in Education group, so any highlighting and notes that show up are hers. I'm re-bookmarking it here since it seems relevant to our discussions on collaboration and also because librarians are awesome...and, yes, Heather does pay me to say things like that.

This site has free printable praphic organizers, forms, awards and certificates and a blog.