Digest of Internet Information, Groups, & Other Stuff
Research in Digital Age
• Too many results from google search • Once find a good one online, hard to find it again? • Use different computers at home / work, how to sync data together?• …..
“Diigo turns reading and research into a social activity. Conversations emerge right on the page and spill over into the classroom. Students love it. They not only engage with the material, they engage with each other.“
~ Prof. Michael Wesch Youtube "The machine is us(ing) us"
Social Bookmarking
Bookmarks
Social?
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
Bookmarks
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
How to mark your place online?
Old Way: Use Favorites in your browser
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
Step back from websites and think about reading books
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
Strategies that helps you focus & remember as you read the books
Credit: Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for Youby Emily Barney http://t.co/ESWiqdo
Collect, Highlight, & Remember!
Research2.0collect, process, organize, evaluate, present
• Bookmark
• Highlight and Sticky Notes
• Get them out - Share, Report, Present
diigo bookmarks ~ not your good old bookmarks
Online bookmark: • Organize by tags or lists • Access from anywhere,
anytime!
• Tagging • Privacy • Share to a List/Group• Twitterthis • Read Later • Upload cache
Diigo bookmarks ~ not your good old bookmarks
Capture & Annotate Screenshot
Digital Highlights & Sticky Notes ~ Indispensable for active reading and better retention
persistent & accessible anywhere
writable
or better
highlights clips
bits of information in one place
Forward one or multiple annotated webpages
Recipient View with highlights shown as concise bullet points
Share Annotated Link
Twitterthis
Diigo in Education
• the skills of finding, organizing, synthesizing, and presenting information
• the social skills of working in groups
~ Diigo is a perfect tool for this kind of exploratory and collaborative learning
Project-based Learning
Effective Tools For Teaching
• Allow teachers to highlight critical material directly on web pages, to collect and organize them into coherent collections, and to facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves.
• Collaborate and share resources among educators
Diigo Educator Accountwww.diigo.com/education
• A new kind of online research and collaborative research tool that integrates tags and folders, highlighting and clipping, sticky notes, group-based collaboration, and much more, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management, learning, and teaching in the information age.
“Digest of Internet Information, Groups, & Other Stuff”
• Diigo Education Account, Phase I: http://blog.diigo.com/2008/09/19/announcing-diigo-educator-accounts/
• Diigo Help / Tutorials: http://help.diigo.com/
• Diigo ~ 21st Century Tool for Research, Reading and Collaboration http://tinyurl.com/93u5be by Peggy Steffens
• Diigo the Web for Education - From TeleGatherer to TelePlanter with Diigo http://tinyurl.com/9efcpt by Miguel Guhlin
• Why Diigo ~ Social Bookmarking 101: Making the Web Work for You http://tinyurl.com/9j7ohs by Emily Barney
• Overview PPT ~ “Dig Deeper with Diigo” by Jennifer Dorman http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/diigo
• “Social bookmarking and Social Anntoations Overview” by Bill @ Digitally Speaking http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Social-Bookmarking-and-Annotating
• "Truly a unique and transformative tool ~ Diigo has the potential to change the ways in which we mentor all our students" ~ Barbara Lindsey http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/
Diigo in Education Resources