ASB Online Academy - Learning with Web 2.0 Tools - Jan 2012

This site is a blog and discusses different uses of Diigo. It pretty much sums up my ideas. We had one teacher use Diigo for teaching note taking for writing a research paper in 9th grade. The students annotated the Web sites they found. They were also able to share resources. I'll use Diigo with my students for information literacy. Students will use a rubric to evaluate news Web sites for relability. They'll post their links and evaluations. Then, my students can comment on each other's evaluations and content.

I love this idea. It makes the whole thing very social and paperless. It might also be a good idea to have a guide/rubric for writing comments the first time to eliminate gratuitous "great job" comments and help students create supportive, critical (in a good way) and yet useful comments for each other.

Tutorial about students posting their writings from their blogs sites to Diigo group and teacher can then ask questions and comments. More like a running dialog where students can reply back as well.

Hi, like now where I get to comment on this link and say this is a good how-to resource. What sorts of agreements or rubrics would you need to ensure high quality collaboration among students? Would they just figure it out on their own?

Wow, I like the idea of using Diigo for collating student work! I'm using Google Docs a lot more and I could really see this being useful. Last semester my students conducted their own research and looked at how their communities have changed by interviewing and surveying people around them. The students handed in their assignments, but better yet, students could put them on Googl Docs and then link to them on Diigo, creating a class library of research. I agree with needing a rubric for commenting. I tend to model this with students a lot. I comment on the first assignment and then we analyze the comments for the content and board what makes a good comment. This is then translated into a rubric. I have to say that I'm not too strict about their comments and I'm generally impressed with their replies. I think the most important thing is to make the communication meangingful.

Great article, but long. This is someone who knows his stuff and has a lot to offer if you can wade through it.

Hi Cathy, this sounds interesting, can you highlight a few of the key sentences to help us quickly get the basic idea of the article? This is also one of the benefits of Diigo for information fluency...helping students and each other wade through long tricky articles.

Great slide show on the benefits of Diigo. Helps to put it all together

This explains how to create an educator account, http://www.diigo.com/education. It does take approval. I have tried to bookmark this link, but the site won't let me. Maybe Diigo doesn't like internal bookmarking(?) Kevin (or anyone else), would you recommend a premium account? I read about the Premium account. What advantages does it have in terms of helping students learn research skills?

I liked this site for two reasons: 1. I like the idea of students doing a scavenger hunt. I envision students being given a topic or better yet a research question and then students set out to answer it. Adding to this idea, I'd include some kind of graphic organizer that helps students process the information they gather so that it's not just a list of links but an activity that has the students synthesize the information and then evaluate it. 2. I have found lots of sites that recommend that teachers get Diigo education accounts as this allows teachers to set up accounts for classes. I also listed a resource on getting started with an Educator account.

I recommend going with the Education Basic plan if you are serious about using Diigo. The ads free, teacher console, and ability to save more than 30 images from web pages is very nice.

This source is much like the previous one I posted in terms of classroom application. What I liked is the idea of professional development and collaboration. Teachers can create resources surrounding certain topics such as great sites for Digital Citizenship or biology simulations. I also like the idea of sharing sites with people in other parts of the world like we're doing now.

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Ideas on how to integrate Diigo in the classroom.

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Diigo - A Powerful Tool for Research

Map skills site with very good activities for second graders.