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Josh: Diigo is a web-based tool for what the company is calling "social annotation." It lets users highlight, annotate (via sticky notes), and clip information from any web site. What I think makes Diigo potentially very useful is that you can share your annotations, clippings and bookmarks with a group. For students and professors I think Diigo could help groups organize their thoughts and research for team projects. Marshall reviewed them a year ago for TechCrunch.

Marshall: I like Diigo a lot, but I haven't kept using them in the time since I first reviewed them. The new Webslides feature looks like it could come in handy and the groups looks solid

I don't know how many more features this product needs. There are already so many! I think they need to focus on finding distribution channels for what they've already built.

Diigo, which bills itself as a “social annotation” tool (previous coverage here), will present its platform at DEMOfall. Rather than just compiling interesting data found online, the platform allows you to organize by bookmarking, highlighting, and clipping only the most relevant elements of sites, including videos, and then adding sticky notes with annotations. These can then in turn be used to create a slideshows (Diigo’s WebSlides), that according to Diigo can be used by groups in collaborative efforts or presentations. In fact, it’s this community/collaborative element that Diigo hopes will help their service stand out from an already crowded space. In theory users will be driven to congregate around topics, feeding these with their own ideas and reflections through personal clippings and annotations, all the while discovering other collaborators on the same topics.

shows a sequence of live web pages from a bookmark list with accompanying notes jeestirling

This is a unique service. It allows you to make a slideshow (with audio) of Web pages. This is really cool and useful for quick overviews of categories of websites as well as quick tutorials. danielcraig

Just like it says. bdunphy

DEMOfall: The wisdom of many, many individuals

The center of influence and knowledge gathering, organization, and sharing is shifting from a centralized authority to the many individuals at the edge of the network. In this session, the following companies showed their solutions for these critical knowledge work tasks: Diigo, Inc.: We spoke with Diigo last week while they were preparing for DEMOfall. Diigo combines web highlighting, note-taking, organization and sharing in a very nice package. Enabled by adding a bookmarklet to your browser (all major flavors are supported), Diigo is adding the ability to collect your web clippings into an easily shared WebSlide presentation. There is a Groups feature that allows you to predefine a distribution list for sharing information and the interface is nicely AJAXed to provide drag-and-drop organization of content. Diigo also provides a social network dimension that allows you to search across the public collections shared by other Diigo users to find people with similar interests. You can search by tags or profiles and extend your network to include others who have displayed a similar are of interest to your own. Inviting friends you already have is all well and good but Diigo provides a way to discover new connections in the web clipping sphere.

This is the most versatile social bookmarking tool! Why is Diigo our social bookmarking service of choice? It provides so many other useful features in addition to saving and sharing bookmarks! Diigo enables you to forward your saved sites to others, enhancing collaboration. It's also a great tool for researching because it allows you to highlight text and add sticky notes to any web page. Diigo provides another tool for collaboration by allowing the creation of user groups and discussion forums. Diigo also interacts with Delicious and other bookmarking tools through the use of the Add Elsewhere button. Web pages can be linked together, in a webquest style, through the use of the webslides feature.

Web bookmarking and research tool Diigo is announcing the launch of Diigo 3.0 today. We initially reviewed Diigo when they launched at DEMO 2007. Diigo is a bookmark tool but what I like about Diigo is their WebSlides feature. It basically makes a live PowerPoint-like annotated presentation using media from across the Web. Back in September I thought the tool was perfect for Web agencies, and I stand by this claim today. One of the new features of Diigo 3.0 is collaborative research. Team members can bring together links they find across the Web for comments and annotation. There is tagging and sticky notes that the team can participate in to make the presentation stronger. The other major update is the addition of more social components. If you install the Diigo toolbar, as you browse the Web, you can see what others think of the page including comments, who bookmarked the page and what other similar sites and pages they have bookmarked. It's all about discovery and Diigo has done a great job in this area.

Diigo has released v 3.0 of its browser plugin and has set a new standard in social bookmarking in the process. It not only allows you to bookmark and save notes in an easy to retrieve place, it adds a new dimension to the Web itself by revealing, at the page level, the community of people who have also interacted with the content. It also feeds into a bigger community of content that builds a social network around relevant information. It combines research and community.

Starting simple: You can bookmark and annotate relevant things that you need to reference later. Using the Webslides function, you also can share these links as a slideshow, which actually appear as “live” web pages. The slideshow is embeddable on Web pages and in blogs. Revealing a new layer of the web: The new sidebar gives you quick access to your bookmarks as well your annotations on each Web page. It also shows you other diigo users who have annotated that page to give you additional perspective. The sidebar is searchable to find your notes quicker and easier. Connect and Engage: According to the company, you are what you annotate. Bookmarks, tags, and annotations are one of the best representations of your interests and expertise. At Diigo, you maintain a bookmarks page which is your hub to relevant content. You can also connect to like-minded people and also browse their activities as they relate to you.

为了增强学生的学习兴趣，教师会不断地思考并改变陈旧的教学方式。追求教学形式的多样性，是激发学生学习热情，提高学习效率的重要措施。多媒体进入课堂，在一定程度上活跃了教室的气氛，整个教学过程变的有声有色。但随着多媒体教学方式的运用与发展，研究者发现大量的多媒体信息还是以填鸭式的方式灌输给学生。虽然转变了教学方式，但学生的互动性、参与性、自主学习与研究能力并没有得到很好的实现。Web2.0时代的Diigo工具可谓是促进多媒体教学发展的一座桥梁。基于传统的网络教学方式，利用Diigo的Highlight功能，教师将教学内容中的重点与难点标出，并在Sticky Note中添加详细的解释。 整个的网络课程不需要搭建特别的平台，仅基于教师的个人Blog就可以得以实现。课前预习、课上学习、课后复习都可以借助此课程达到一定的学习目的。关于某个有疑问的重点或难点，学生还可以添加回复，对此教师即可以单独进行辅导，也可以根据问题提出的频率，在课堂上进行专门的讲解。所以说，Diigo能有效地帮助教师改善教学内容，增强学生与教师之间的交流与互动。Webslides课程包、书签式网络课程也是丰富教学内容的很好方式。 （三）为师生提供便捷的交流平台 教师和学生在教学过程中都不可避免地会遇到很多令人困惑的问题。自主研究当然是不错的方式，但讨论交流才可以扩展思路，一个建议可能会带来新的思路。而且，与他人交流还可以学到许多新知识，新方法。关于教学或学习过程中的某一个问题，可以分享到众人的不同观点，整个过程就像一次头脑风暴，不断迸发出新的亮点。Diigo的群组功能，标注的回复功能为我们提供了不同的交流平台。教师可以针对某个学习内容建立一个组，以便学生更透彻的掌握科学知识。学生也可以针对某个难点建立一个组，让大家一起出谋划策，共同学习。并且，师生之间的沟通交流，加强了彼此间的了解，这将会使教学过程更加和谐顺畅。教师可以适当的对不同的讨论组进行管理，以促进整个教学过程更良性化的发展。 （四）提高学生独立思考、自主学习的能力 教育的目的不仅在于科学知识的传授，重点是培养学生的综合素质。例如学习能力、思考能力、创新能力等。Diigo恰好能在这些方面对学生进行锻炼。针对社会中的某些现象，学生利用Sticky Note发表自己的看法，并对他人的不同观点发表评论。在众多的言论中，辨别认同或反对的立场，从而锻炼学生辨别分析、独立判断的能力。表达不仅意味着与人分享，将阅读权限设置为私有，随时随地记下个人想法，促使自己积极、主动、独立的思考。而且学生可以定期梳理自己不同时期的想法，以发现观点的变化，思维的发展，并自我分析原因。利用Diigo，学生的学习兴趣被激发、学习的主动性相应增强，Web2.0时代的教育和学习理念也会适应性地变化和发展。 四、结束语 目前，Diigo正在发展之中，用户也不够广泛，Diigo在有些方面的功能还不是很完善。例如，添加好友的功能单一、部分功能的可配置项太少。但新的创意带来好的工具，好的工具一定会得到大众的认可。我们相信，在信息技术飞速发展的今天，像Diigo这样极具实用价值的Web2.0工具，随着用户的增多，Diigo在教育中运用将会逐步走向成熟，成为新时期教育工作者必备的网络工具之一。