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diigo assignment engaging experiments

started by Annette Lamb on 12 Aug 12
  • Annette Lamb
    #1 Annette Lamb on 12 Aug 12
     
    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.
  • Angela Barton
    #3 Angela Barton on 12 Nov 12
     
    I wanted to gather resources on countries and travel for children. I found some great sites I was able to bookmark and refer to for later use. I added notes to areas where I wanted to remember something in particular and add suggestions for programming/ activities.

    At first, it took me a few minutes to really understand the purpose of the Diigo toolbar, but after playing around with the toolbar capabilities, I can see how this is a great tool for educators as well as students. Bookmarking is simple and highlighting and adding notes allows a person to quickly reference something of importance.

    My diigo username is: http://www.diigo.com/user/anbarton16
    Links to my bookmarked sites and notes are as follows:
    http://diigo.com/0uag3
    http://diigo.com/0uag4
    http://diigo.com/0uagg
    http://diigo.com/0uags
    http://diigo.com/0uags
  • Paul Luft
    #4 Paul Luft on 14 Nov 12
     
    My name is Paul Luft and this is my user name URL: http://www.diigo.com/user/pluft1227

    My diigo experience has been bumpy. The instillation of the toolbar did not go well, in fact it did not install. I decided to switch to the Chrom browser, and that went worse, the download got hung up. I then switch to my Firefox browser, and decide to drag the diigolet over, and that worked, or at least I though it might. Today, when I signed on the diigolet did not work. I move the diigolet of my tool bar and go back to the tool section and drag it back on to my bar.

    Next issue, I have been working on some parts of my final assignment. Now that I have Diigo on my toolbar, it tries to bookmark my gadgets (a disk icon comes on in the gadget frame from Diigo) on my Google Site in edit mode. I have had a few weird spacing issues happening on my Google Site. I know Google Site can also get quirky at times.

    I see a lot of good possibilities with Diigo, and I plan on using it on my final project, but I am not sure if I am going to keep it on my toolbar if I am creating websites. Which brings me to another thought, and that is when does a application like Diigo become to intrusive. We have all these apps running in the background and doing who knows what to our systems. Diigo might be a little too intrusive for my taste, but it could be that I just had a bad experience with the app so far. I won't quit on it yet, but if I have to continually go to the tool screen to load the Diigolet, and I see more Google Site spacing issues, Diigo is coming off my toolbar.

    http://diigo.com/0ublv
    http://diigo.com/0uchn
    http://diigo.com/0uchr
    http://diigo.com/0uakm

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  • Carey Major
    #5 Carey Major on 15 Nov 12
     
    My user name URL is http://www.diigo.com/user/Careymajor

    I decided to bookmark places that librarians can find reviews, interviews, and book discussions about YA books. I think Diigo is a great tool for teaching and activities, I had a lot of fun with it.

    Notes and bookmarks:

    http://diigo.com/0udoq
    http://diigo.com/0udoy
    http://diigo.com/0udp0
    http://diigo.com/0udp2
    http://diigo.com/0udp7
    http://diigo.com/0udpc
  • Elizabeth Murray
    #8 Elizabeth Murray on 19 Nov 12
     
    I really enjoyed using Diigo. Once I downloaded the toolbar, I found it quite easy to use, and I can imagine using it for research projects in the future. I think it will be a great way to organize and keep track of websites that I would like to share with my students and colleagues.

    I particularly liked the sticky notes feature. I can see using the sticky notes to record ideas for projects that I would normally jot down on scrap paper (and then often lose).

    All of my bookmarks are related to theme I selected for my group: a Victorian novels book club.

    Username: http://www.diigo.com/user/emurray35

    http://diigo.com/0ufv4 - This is a great brief biography of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins.

    http://diigo.com/0ufv6 - This site includes a biography of Charles Dickens.

    http://diigo.com/0ufv7 - This is a top ten list of Victorian novels.

    http://diigo.com/0ufv9 - A BBC article about Charles Dickens.
  • Ashley Dietrick
    #9 Ashley Dietrick on 20 Nov 12
     
    Hi everyone,

    You can see and read more about my bookmarked sites at http://www.diigo.com/user/adietrick

    The links to these sites are as follows:
    http://diigo.com/0ugnp - WolframAlpha
    http://diigo.com/0ugnq - American Kennel Club, Dog Owners
    http://diigo.com/0ugnr - National Geographic, Wallpapers
    http://diigo.com/0ugns - PBSkids.org

    I really like Diigo, so far. Many social media sites are useful in that they connect us with other people, but they don't necessarily streamline our lives. I'm thinking of Facebook, LibraryThing, GoodReads or SecondLife. These programs aid us in sharing information and developing relationships with others, but they still require extra time and effort to really maximize their benefits. Diigo, on the other hand, was simple to use and required very little effort on my part. (With Paul's post in mind, I realize that not everyone had an easy experience with Diigo, though.) The Diigo applet - "Diggolet" - downloaded easily and was fairly intuitive to use. I set my account to send me automatic email updates every time someone else posted something, so I have been "in the loop" since signing up and joining our group without having to even log on to Diigo. The way I see it is if I'm already going to be online, sifting through websites, then all I have to do is bookmark it and share it with the group - and then whoever else is in my group gets an automatic update. Easy as that. I don't have to email a link or copy and past it to another site. I don't have to log on to Diigo and update my account that way. If someone else has access to my account and is set to receive updates on that account, then they will automatically see when I add a new piece of information. And neither of us even had to be on Diigo to make that happen. I love it.

    On the down side, I don't like that I can't edit my sticky notes. I'd rather not have to re-type something every time I see a mistake. I've read others' cons, too, and I can see that Diigo is certainly not perfect. However, I would still recommend it for future use.

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