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

New from Diigo ~ iPad, Android, Chrome, Firefox, etc …

iChromy / Diigo Browser~ Chrome style browser in iPad by Diigo

Diigo app for iPad

Diigo Offline Reader for iPhone

Power Note by Diigo~ Notebook on the go!

Quick Note by Diigo ~ The easiest way to take notes on Android tablet

http://www.readonphone.com/

Read on Phone~ push webpage from Chrome to Android (clean / offline reading)

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