Do some exploring. Create at least 4 bookmarks and take notes on at least 4 additional web pages of interest. Share your experiences with your links and your diigo username URL. For instance, my diigo username URL is at http://www.diigo.com/user/eduscapes.
I decided to find author websites for teens and children. The bookmarked sites are more for teens and the notes contain sites for children. It was easy to create the bookmarks, but I would have liked the option to write a little blurb about each site. If I were creating this for a real library or school, I wouldn't combine sites for teens and children. I didn't see the Lists option until after I had put everything together. It would be nice to be able to transfer what I had already written or bookmarked to lists, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
Edit - Aha! I figured out how to add a blurb about each site! :)
I decided to compile a list of websites that teachers or school library media specialists would find useful to use with students either for research, homework help, literacy work stations or search engines. The sites that I took notes on are the sites that I considered to be the most efficient and the easiest for students and teachers to navigate. The sites that i bookmarked are sites that would be useful to share with students but may not be as user friendly.
As far as my Diigo experience, I have felt that the more I jumped in, the better I feel about using it. When I tried to watch the tutorials, I wasn't getting as much out of it. I had to play around with the bookmarks and note taking, as I wasn't real clear on the difference between the two.
Anne Elise Smith - Can you please share with me what the difference is? I have no clue and am quickly getting nowhere trying to figure it out. Thanks so much! Nan
I've included this blog URL because I so identify with the author's tone, because I'm painfully aware that the same things happen in job searching in all fields. A recent law school graduate I know, drove 6 hours for a job interview, only to be told when she arrived that the interviewer was NOT there. Someone else interviewed her, and withing the first 5 minutes asked her if she was aware that the position was part time....ugh.
Warning: The comments after AL's posts are quite vitriolic in places.....
This is Sara Porter, My username is Jusaport and my address is http://www.diigo.com/user/jusaport I decided to continue the trend on Sylvia Plath by bookmarking some links about her. I took notes on The Sparksnotes page on The Bell Jar, The Neurotic Poets site which discusses her and several other poets who were troubled by mental illness, as well as a couple of sites on suicide and depression. I highlighted portions of Plath's biography on Neurotic Poet's , particularly highlights of her life that led to her poetry, and I also highlighted some of the poems in chronological order that earmarked certain events. Enjoy.
Since I just finished an information inquiry project for my 574 class, I thought that I would research and bookmark some more websites dealing with the Holocaust. The lessons in the project were designed for 6th grade and 9th grade students, so my tags and descriptions for each of the sites were chosen to aid me in continuing to develop the Holocaust units. You can access my library and Holocaust bookmarks at: http://www.diigo.com/user/staceyk7
I tend to stray from the norm, as is the case here, so my bookmarks really do not have anything in common other than the fact that they all reflect things that I am interested in or hold some importance in my life lately. My library can be found at http://www.diigo.com/user/deweydecimaul.
The first site bookmarked on here is actually a link to another Diigo group. I found this while playing around and thought it was relevant to our class since it focuses on Second Life as a teaching tool. How cool is that? I didn't highlight anything on here but, rather, just wanted to point out that you can bookmark other groups and pages on Diigo regardless as to whether you are a member of the group or not.
The second bookmarked site on my list is a website that is very near and dear to me at the current time. Here was find the "100 Best Sci-Fi Books" list. I am new to the genre and have decided that I am going to read all 100 books on the list. I love Diigo for the main reason that, as I go, I can highlight each book that I read. It is really awesome to be able to keep track this way.
My third bookmark is a section of the rules of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). I am very much involved with roller derby and will become WFTDA certified at the end of the month if all goes well (fingers crossed!). I only need pass one more skills test, out of many, to get my certification. My roller derby name is "Dewey Decimaul". I bookmarked a section that explains what each player is called and what they do. I feel strongest as "inside blocker" at this point but hope someday to become good and fast enough to become a jammer.
My fourth bookmark is a brief tutorial on e-readers. I just recently bought a brand new Kindle (3G and WiFi!) and have fallen deeply, passionately, and irrationally in love with it. It is already helping me get through my list of 100 Sci-Fi books!
You will also notice a picture in my library. Facebook and Diigo apparently like each other. If you have a Facebook page, go to someone's page and mouse over their profile picture. What happens? Pretty cool, huh? :) This is a picture of my best friend Warren. He loves vinyl albums, making music, and me. <3
As a lover of Jane Austen and the Regency England she lived in, I have chosen to explore 4 websites related to Regency England. I love exploring this period and there are some great resources out there, including maps of london, pictures of fashions at the time, and glimpses into what scandalized the people of the time. http://www.diigo.com/user/Maransty
My websites with notes are from a variety of blogs that I subscribe to in my Google Reader feed. Many of them are on the topic of literacy, book reviews, and the state of education and libraries. My other bookmarked sites are mainly about iPad/iPhone apps. I am really interested in making the best use of my iPhone and finding some apps for my son's iPod Touch. It is nice to find suggestions about free educational apps. There are so many to wade through.
After seeing the recent news story about students cheating on an exam, I decided to delve deeper into the topic. In addition to finding a video of the class where students were actually accused, I found a number of other resources on the topic, including a research paper detailing factors associated with cheating, an article about an employee of an essay-writing service, and several other resources.
Hi Brad, I read the article from the employee of the essay writing service. Very very interesting. I saw it on Twitter, did you see the comments on the original piece?
Inspired by the poem I shared, I decided to choose some websites having to do with what women want. I chose one chick lit author's website, two "diet" and health books, The Gossip Girl website, and several other websites of women's interests. I also mixed websites of some of my favorite children's books authors as well as websites that hold my interest.
I find Diigo fun to use. It is a convenient location to store my bookmarks so that when I use another computer, I can find the websites that I need without using the search engine or typing the address. It is also fun to highlight information that I think is important and add sticky notes to my thoughts. Highlighting and adding notes can save unnecessary lookup time in the future. For example, at a popular attraction (i.e. zoo, amusement park), I can highlight the opening times, and the highlight becomes convenient in the future.
I created a list of web resources that deal with home energy savings and weather-proofing your house. This is a topic near and dear to me since I have a very drafty old farm house. All of my bookmarks and notes are visible on my Diigo page listed above. I found the whole process of bookmarking and taking notes on pages very helpful. This will be a great tool to use whenever I do research or I am trying to pull several things together to complete a project. I wish that you could take the note pad with you to the site and make notes as you go rather than having it fixed to your main Diigo page. I also like that you can add a description to the bookmarks so that you can remember specific points about that page or even remember what you thought the page would be useful for. I can see how you can use this tool to set up a program, workshop, or any number of uses in a library or school setting.
Hey guys I put together a couple of pages that I thought would be fun and would help in the future one page is about University of Michigan's Phd program for Library Science and another is about jobs and last two are for fun so go check them out thanks
http://www.diigo.com/profile/shansurri I guess the project on poetry got me thinking about some of my favorites, so I have a bit of a theme going on in my links that has to do with poetry with a team building or nurturing/teaching theme. It was interesting to use the note ability, but I did get frustrated at time with the highlighting tool. Overall, I can see a very practical use for this site, if I can access it from school. It offers opportunities to prep certain sites before their use.
Maggie: Even though I am not a big fan of Jane Austen, I like studying different aspects of novels. I like all of the different bookmarked links to aspects of Regency era England. It helps one understand the milieu a lot better and see it from different aspects. I have a friend who participates in Nano and she always sets her works in Regency-era England, so it's an interesting time to study for literature.
First, I transferred some of my already bookmarked pages. Then, I created a new list, called "Fiesta7 bookmarks" and I bookmarked few websites that I found interesting. I like 123Greatings site because you can find a card for any occasion and for every person in your life (and it is free). I think that KidsKnowIt Network is a great portal to free educational websites for kids. In addition to it Kids Astronomy.com, is a site full with plenty of games, activities and fun facts about the exciting world of outer space. Kids will enjoy learning and playing all along. I also found an onlineTV art site that presents information in a very unique way. I bookmarked and took some notes on these and some other sites that I found interesting. I liked using Diigo because it's not only allows you to save the addresses of websites and organize them in different lists but you can also share your resources with others. It was easy to use the Diigo tools for bookmarking, highlighting and taking notes. It was also fun and interesting for me to see other members' sticky notes when logged into Diigo account I was browsing different web sites. I really liked the "Capture" feature that allows you to capture a portion of a webpage and annotate it with different shapes and colors. I wish this was not a premium feature (with a free service you can use it only 5 times per month).
I thought that the process of adding bookmarks was quite easy, after an initial frustration of not being able to find the tools. I eventually went to the HELP menu...and voila...completed my tasks. Very easy directions. I am curious how this site would prove to be more efficient or "more handy" than any other citation/bookmarking source. I do think that Diigo is MUCH better than Delicious--it does so much more! My four sites deal with cookbooks and cookery research. (relating to my books in my LibraryThing account).
started by Annette Lamb on 23 Oct 10
I decided to find author websites for teens and children. The bookmarked sites are more for teens and the notes contain sites for children. It was easy to create the bookmarks, but I would have liked the option to write a little blurb about each site. If I were creating this for a real library or school, I wouldn't combine sites for teens and children. I didn't see the Lists option until after I had put everything together. It would be nice to be able to transfer what I had already written or bookmarked to lists, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
Edit - Aha! I figured out how to add a blurb about each site! :)
I decided to compile a list of websites that teachers or school library media specialists would find useful to use with students either for research, homework help, literacy work stations or search engines. The sites that I took notes on are the sites that I considered to be the most efficient and the easiest for students and teachers to navigate. The sites that i bookmarked are sites that would be useful to share with students but may not be as user friendly.
As far as my Diigo experience, I have felt that the more I jumped in, the better I feel about using it. When I tried to watch the tutorials, I wasn't getting as much out of it. I had to play around with the bookmarks and note taking, as I wasn't real clear on the difference between the two.
My URL is: http://groups.diigo.com/group/high-tech-learning/content/user/nwingrove
Warning: The comments after AL's posts are quite vitriolic in places.....
http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/05/library-job-that-sucks-5.html
http://www.aimusa.com/full_service.php
http://www.diigo.com/profile/justinmacmillan
http://www.diigo.com/user/jusaport
I decided to continue the trend on Sylvia Plath by bookmarking some links about her. I took notes on The Sparksnotes page on The Bell Jar, The Neurotic Poets site which discusses her and several other poets who were troubled by mental illness, as well as a couple of sites on suicide and depression. I highlighted portions of Plath's biography on Neurotic Poet's , particularly highlights of her life that led to her poetry, and I also highlighted some of the poems in chronological order that earmarked certain events. Enjoy.
The first site bookmarked on here is actually a link to another Diigo group. I found this while playing around and thought it was relevant to our class since it focuses on Second Life as a teaching tool. How cool is that? I didn't highlight anything on here but, rather, just wanted to point out that you can bookmark other groups and pages on Diigo regardless as to whether you are a member of the group or not.
The second bookmarked site on my list is a website that is very near and dear to me at the current time. Here was find the "100 Best Sci-Fi Books" list. I am new to the genre and have decided that I am going to read all 100 books on the list. I love Diigo for the main reason that, as I go, I can highlight each book that I read. It is really awesome to be able to keep track this way.
My third bookmark is a section of the rules of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). I am very much involved with roller derby and will become WFTDA certified at the end of the month if all goes well (fingers crossed!). I only need pass one more skills test, out of many, to get my certification. My roller derby name is "Dewey Decimaul". I bookmarked a section that explains what each player is called and what they do. I feel strongest as "inside blocker" at this point but hope someday to become good and fast enough to become a jammer.
My fourth bookmark is a brief tutorial on e-readers. I just recently bought a brand new Kindle (3G and WiFi!) and have fallen deeply, passionately, and irrationally in love with it. It is already helping me get through my list of 100 Sci-Fi books!
You will also notice a picture in my library. Facebook and Diigo apparently like each other. If you have a Facebook page, go to someone's page and mouse over their profile picture. What happens? Pretty cool, huh? :) This is a picture of my best friend Warren. He loves vinyl albums, making music, and me. <3
http://www.diigo.com/user/Maransty
My websites with notes are from a variety of blogs that I subscribe to in my Google Reader feed. Many of them are on the topic of literacy, book reviews, and the state of education and libraries. My other bookmarked sites are mainly about iPad/iPhone apps. I am really interested in making the best use of my iPhone and finding some apps for my son's iPod Touch. It is nice to find suggestions about free educational apps. There are so many to wade through.
After seeing the recent news story about students cheating on an exam, I decided to delve deeper into the topic. In addition to finding a video of the class where students were actually accused, I found a number of other resources on the topic, including a research paper detailing factors associated with cheating, an article about an employee of an essay-writing service, and several other resources.
I read the article from the employee of the essay writing service. Very very interesting. I saw it on Twitter, did you see the comments on the original piece?
Inspired by the poem I shared, I decided to choose some websites having to do with what women want. I chose one chick lit author's website, two "diet" and health books, The Gossip Girl website, and several other websites of women's interests. I also mixed websites of some of my favorite children's books authors as well as websites that hold my interest.
I find Diigo fun to use. It is a convenient location to store my bookmarks so that when I use another computer, I can find the websites that I need without using the search engine or typing the address. It is also fun to highlight information that I think is important and add sticky notes to my thoughts. Highlighting and adding notes can save unnecessary lookup time in the future. For example, at a popular attraction (i.e. zoo, amusement park), I can highlight the opening times, and the highlight becomes convenient in the future.
I created a list of web resources that deal with home energy savings and weather-proofing your house. This is a topic near and dear to me since I have a very drafty old farm house. All of my bookmarks and notes are visible on my Diigo page listed above. I found the whole process of bookmarking and taking notes on pages very helpful. This will be a great tool to use whenever I do research or I am trying to pull several things together to complete a project. I wish that you could take the note pad with you to the site and make notes as you go rather than having it fixed to your main Diigo page. I also like that you can add a description to the bookmarks so that you can remember specific points about that page or even remember what you thought the page would be useful for. I can see how you can use this tool to set up a program, workshop, or any number of uses in a library or school setting.
Hey guys I put together a couple of pages that I thought would be fun and would help in the future one page is about University of Michigan's Phd program for Library Science and another is about jobs and last two are for fun so go check them out thanks
Yes, the comments were very interesting and really add to the story.
Brad
I guess the project on poetry got me thinking about some of my favorites, so I have a bit of a theme going on in my links that has to do with poetry with a team building or nurturing/teaching theme. It was interesting to use the note ability, but I did get frustrated at time with the highlighting tool. Overall, I can see a very practical use for this site, if I can access it from school. It offers opportunities to prep certain sites before their use.
Even though I am not a big fan of Jane Austen, I like studying different aspects of novels. I like all of the different bookmarked links to aspects of Regency era England. It helps one understand the milieu a lot better and see it from different aspects. I have a friend who participates in Nano and she always sets her works in Regency-era England, so it's an interesting time to study for literature.
First, I transferred some of my already bookmarked pages. Then, I created a new list, called "Fiesta7 bookmarks" and I bookmarked few websites that I found interesting.
I like 123Greatings site because you can find a card for any occasion and for every person in your life (and it is free).
I think that KidsKnowIt Network is a great portal to free educational websites for kids. In addition to it Kids Astronomy.com, is a site full with plenty of games, activities and fun facts about the exciting world of outer space. Kids will enjoy learning and playing all along.
I also found an onlineTV art site that presents information in a very unique way.
I bookmarked and took some notes on these and some other sites that I found interesting.
I liked using Diigo because it's not only allows you to save the addresses of websites and organize them in different lists but you can also share your resources with others.
It was easy to use the Diigo tools for bookmarking, highlighting and taking notes. It was also fun and interesting for me to see other members' sticky notes when logged into Diigo account I was browsing different web sites.
I really liked the "Capture" feature that allows you to capture a portion of a webpage and annotate it with different shapes and colors. I wish this was not a premium feature (with a free service you can use it only 5 times per month).
I thought that the process of adding bookmarks was quite easy, after an initial frustration of not being able to find the tools. I eventually went to the HELP menu...and voila...completed my tasks. Very easy directions. I am curious how this site would prove to be more efficient or "more handy" than any other citation/bookmarking source. I do think that Diigo is MUCH better than Delicious--it does so much more! My four sites deal with cookbooks and cookery research. (relating to my books in my LibraryThing account).