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An excellent resource for those who are introducing Diigo to their staff or class. Has links to various resources regarding social bookmarking in general, and Diigo in particular and shares how it could be used by a class or staff.

Some innovative ideas on how to use the various diigo features in different situations. Well worth a read.

An example of how Diigo could be used as a digital portfolio.

A Guide to Annotating using Diigo. Invest 2 minutes to learn how you can help students learn from and with each other by annotating web pages in with Diigo

Want to add a Diigolet to your iPad- here is some instructions for set up. 

Blog of the Lighthouse Learning Technologies Course

Have just been playing with this and must say it looks pretty interesting. you can easily combine pictures, text and video. You can alos create links to other sites etc. The free version also comes with 200 student accounts. I found it in here http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/allison-gray/50-web-apps-for-teachers/ which came from the diigo Classroom 2.0 group.

"A great vocabulary tool which could be used to demonstrate connections between vocabulary terms on the Interactive Whiteboard"

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Fantastic for secondary English

Just a bit of fun Customise your own medal- you may have a need for this!

Love this!!!!! sim­ple. you'll see one word at the top of the fol­low­ing screen. you have sixty sec­onds to write about it. click 'go

This could be worth changing to, especially with the auto post to delicious. The groups, annotation and highlighting are the main points of difference that appeal to me.

Some high schools in Denmark are beginning to allow students access to the internet during exams. Exciting stuff, and fantastic to see countries looking into more open forms of assessment. I will be interested to see how quickly other nations follow Denmark's lead in this regard. Tools like Diigo would be a fantastic method of preparation for student's sitting these exams.

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any LT Coordinator . Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

A great blog entry explaining RSS, Social Bookmarking and Blogging with supporting resources if you are introducing these tools to your staff. 

Centre for learning and performance technologies top 100 tools for 2009

Hey Brad, you should submit your top 10 tools, its close to closing for the year.

Thanks Mark - just sent it in then. I am liking diigo also. Looks like a handy little tool and have set it up to send through to delicious also. May become my social bookmarking tool of choice!!

A network of teachers committed the purposeful use of learning technologies to enhance learning and teaching. We plan to build a rich community of learners who will work to develop their professional currency and relevance.

Quite an interesting read - with some possible practical ideas ...