An evaluation of using Diigo.com with students « Andywhiteway's Blog - 0 views
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An evaluation of using Diigo.com with students
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by andywhiteway
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May 15, 2009
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Diigo – its effect on me
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many fantastic links from the diigo in education group
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reccomend all teachers with an interest in using web2.0 in their teaching to join this group
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Tips/Tricks/Pitfalls
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My students were A-Level
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reasonably mature (16/17)
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I was on hand to support in a very intensive way
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the group was small (about 9)
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things that you should absolutely do to make sure students use diigo properly
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select the drop down menu
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as soon as they start writing a note
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decide if the content they are writing is to be shared
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find the group you have assigned them to belong to and select that.
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Highlighting is fiddly
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I find that highlighting with Diigolet (with Safari in Mac OS X) feels better than with installed versions of Diigo.
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Keep the diigo homepage open
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open a seperate browser or tab
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Making use of your group’
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favourite
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review the annotations we’ve all made
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a good plenary
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or start to the next lesson
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challenging those sticky note annotations also increases their value
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Moderating those pesky post-it notes
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Where next for diigo?
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I was new to the whole social bookmarking thing
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more potential for taking the links found further
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more usability in the forum
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plus the ability to easily add in some tricksy multimedia
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a stranded approach to posts
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confusing
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use diigo in interesting ways
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deeper learning
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Final thoughts
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use it with much younger students
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easily create accounts for students
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don’t need a long list of their email addresses
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most impressed by how much diigo enabled students to vocalise their thoughts
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security and space
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without feeling pressured
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others (particularly in different subjects), might discover interesting and different ways of using it
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This in turn will lead to more ideas for everyone involved.
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Conceptually diigo addresses some big problems
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put simply it enskills them to use the internet in an open way
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debates
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things randing from validity of information to building collective knowledge as a group
