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We have already covered why Diigo, a web bookmarking and annotation service, is a powerful tool for managing bookmarks, but why stop there?  Diigo can be a very useful tool for helping you to write a college essay or research paper. Since the Internet is a tool that most students use to do research, and since most research papers are based on quotes used from various sources, Diigo provides a way to not only bookmark your sources, but also to manage and access your quotes, notes, and analysis.

I know that we're familiar with most of this, but I don't think it hurts to have a resource that we can pass along to others in this way.

Taking Diigo Beyond the Bookmark Books to Read List v

George Siemens's Public Library on Diigo 

A Guide to Annotating using Diigo

Article on how to use Diigo with students. Especially geared for k-12 (?). Ideas for things like shared annotation roles, shared bookmarking roles, Handouts are at the bottom of the page.

Power to the People! Jennifer Ditkoff, Keene State College Give students the power to guide their own education. Using Wallwisher an instructor gains insight on student needs and opens up a classroom discussion. After library instruction short tutorials are posted on Voicethread. Students experiment with the concepts, actively participating in assessing their own research efforts, as well as their classmates. Students have control over their own learning experience and can revisit the course materials throughout the semester to add content, ask questions, and receive feedback. Diigo is used rather than a static handout. Students provide links to helpful materials for their peers, highlighting the community aspect of ongoing education. Jennifer Ditkoff has worked in academic, public and medical libraries, learning every type of classification system, including the elusive Cutter system. When she is not troubleshooting electronic resources, she teaches information literacy, staffs the reference desk, and shows up early to committee meetings. She enjoys learning about new technologies.

4 minute video that can be used to show  the value of Diigo. Great for pre-workshop information

From @snappity

Canvas and LMS selection criteria

Did a quick pass of this MediaSite presentation and it appears to bring up some valid points about the benefits of lecture capture. Worthy of a Diigo tag, I think.

Google Spreadsheet is a powerful and free tool to manage complex spreadsheets. This tutorial illustrates ten useful formulas you must know to help you simplify the way you work in Google Spreadsheet.

Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…

The Community of Scientists project seeks to pair up NH classrooms for inquiry-based science co-investigations, using technology for video and voice communication.  Teachers at Winchester School (K-8) in Winchester, NH, are working out initial technology questions by creating a Community of Scientists with Elementary Education Methods II students at Keene State College. The pilot project is to co-investigate hydroponics as a sustainable option for growing food rapidly in smaller areas. It entails setting up a simple classroom hydroponics station where students will explore how to best grow plants hydroponically.  KSC students will conduct and monitor their hydroponics experiments while students in Winchester School conduct similar experiment in their own hydroponic station in their classroom.  Students will then video chat with their co-investigators and share their findings.

Thanks for diigoing this.

RSS widget that can be pasted into BlackBoard

Add this widget to any blog or Web page, and display a feed with no programming. Just enter the URL of any feed and click the button to create your free widget.

The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management.  One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years.

Evernote is actually a great Delicious alternative. Unlike Delicious, Evernote allows you to clip your favorite webpage-text, images and links-so that you can view them at your leisure, online or offline. No more worrying about 404 errors or changing pages. True, we don't have the social features of Delicious, but if you want to save your favorite pages forever, Evernote is perfect.