"Step 1: Import your kindle highlights to your Diigo library.
With the new Diigo chrome extension, it only takes one click to import all of your highlights from a book to your Diigo library.
"Step 2: Organize highlights from a book in your own knowledge structure.
"After Kindle highlights are imported in your Diigo library, it's easy to add them to an outliner where you can then organize these highlights in your own structure."
A nice set of lesson plans for middle-school to high-school students using Diigo to explore content areas. You need to sign in through a Purdue University portal to access the lessons.
"Diigo is an awesome tool to use in the classroom. Teachers across the globe have used the social bookmarking tool to motivate and engage students in collaborative learning projects. This section will give you the opportunity to explore numerous lesson ideas on how to incorporate Diigo into your subject area. Diigo will help students develop and improve skills in communication, organization, and classification. Feel free to use these resources. We are sure it will make teaching easier and more exciting, while enhancing student academic performance."
"Do you Diigo? To be honest, I signed up but never used the online social-bookmarking tool. Fortunately, TESOL's Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Section has been busy bookmarking some great online resources. Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith shared the Diigo CALL IS Virtual Software List on the TESOL CALL Community: http://www.Diigo.com/user/call_is_vsl. This list contains tons of resources on various teaching topics! However, this post focuses only on the teacher-training videos."
A nice review and selection by Sandra Rogers for the TESOL Blog.
"Here is how it looks when you are using outliner to organize bookmarks, annotations and notes."
A short video and an actual outliner to show how this feature of Diigo works.
This is an example of what would be a great project for students using the rich capabilities of Diigo. Here the author used the slideshow of sites feature of Diigo to create a show with pictures of graffiti. This project could be done internationally, as here in the example, or with students taking pictures of local graffiti and writing comments about them in their blogs to eventually produce a team-made project about their local surroundings.
"Social bookmarking is a way to save, store, group, and share Internet bookmarks online. It allows you to have access to your favorite bookmarks on any computer with Internet access, so even if you are away from home, or work, you can still find and use the sites you value most. Social bookmarking sites also give you the option of joining a group of like minded people, following, or being followed by, individuals who collect similar types of bookmarks to your own. Examples of such sites include Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, and the focus of this article, Diigo."
"A whole course can be organized around a wiki as shown here, an excerpt from the upcoming Multimedia Kit, "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" which will include his book of the same name, a video, and a facilitator's guide from Corwin (corwinpress.com)."
A concise (3 min) video on how to organize a course using wikis, with interviews with students. The course also uses Diigo to annotate readings. One students says it really makes her a better reader. As you read others' annotations, "It's really another way of having a discussion."
This short video (7+ min.) explains what social bookmarking is and how to use Diigo for education. It starts with a walk-through of creating an account, selecting and using tags, installing a Chrome extension (also works well with Firefox) or Diigolet on your browser, and how to actually bookmark a page.
Other video tutorials explain the lists function and setting up groups.
Archive and sort your favorite bookmarks. I use Diigo for the CALL-IS Virtual Software Library. Anyone can join the related group and add to the bookmarks.
Nice online tutorial explaining all the features of Diigo social bookmarking. A must for teachers to view before setting up research groups with their students.
"Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the technology, or assume that our students already know it because they use it every day, is to participate in educational malpractice."
A very sensible article about what main tools are used to move kids from social media to academic purposes -- and how to get them there. Speaks to PLNs, PLEs, Pinterest, curation with Diigo, Symbaloo, Netvibes, Twitter. Very good explanation of how the work, the advantages, and the possible problems.
Hybrid Pedagogy is a Digital Journal with a team of editors and writers.
"Awesome cloud-based information management tool that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices."
Short video shows the many ways to use Diigo to archive good websites.
Teaching social bookmarking is the topic of this K-12 blog entry. Tells how and why to use Diigo educationally, but can be applied to other, similar applications.
"How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, organize information -->knowledge"
A nice illustration in a Screenr screencast of how a Stanford professor uses various online tools to organize Internet information.
"Focused Research is a feature that allows you to re-use your saving preferences with minimal effort. Once you are in the research mode, the same set of tags, outliner and group are automatically applied to every item you save or annotate. This can be a big time saver when you are doing research on a particular topic." The short article shows how to access the "Remember saving preferences" button. Nice.
"A flash resource to help teach probability in maths. Use the spinner to tally the colours that appear. The resource allows you to spin individual spins or up to 1000 spins at a time." Thanks to Martin Burett at Diigo in Education.
"Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem."
I feel that Diigo is a way to help with that curation. This is a great article by Robin Good.
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has made this useful list of educational tools. However there is no info or notes or suggestions for use. Most are already in our Diigo.
