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the first great thing about Diigo is that your bookmarks follow you wherever you go. When you bookmark a site using your Diigo account, you can have access to it at work, home, the computer lab or library. The other great thing is that once you bookmark it, you can share your book mark links with students and colleagues and they can all have access to your sites.
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Amy Cordova on 17 Nov 08This would be the first reason to use Diigo in the classroom
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The next big plus to Diigo is that you get to “tag” the sites you want to bookmark. A tag is the classification system you determine so you can organize your bookmarks and find the link the next time you need it; this is known as a folksonomy.
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On the sticky note the teacher could ask questions and Diigo allows people to comment and reply to the questions on the sticky note. Students could also add sticky notes for other students to comment on as well. Another way to use the highlighting tool is that students could go through an article and highlight all of the vocabulary that they didn’t know and learn what it means prior to reading the article. Or students could put sticky notes about questions they have when reading the text.
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But, now let’s get to the “social” part of social bookmarking. Let’s say you find a really awesome site for your unit on Greek Mythology, and you tag it on Diigo. You see when you look at your bookmark list that 72 other people have tagged that exact same site. You can see the lists of the other people who have tagged that site, and you might discover a 6th grade teacher in Wisconsin who has an amazing list of Greek mythology sites that you didn’t even know about. Now you have taken advantage of the social part of the bookmarking process by adding some of those bookmarks to your list.