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 * Diigo social bookmarking in the classroom - HGI **======

[|Click here to check it out for yourself!]

Pronounced as **Dee'go**. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "**D**igest of **I**nternet **I**nformation, **G**roups and **O**ther stuff."

Diigo is often compared with other social bookmarking sites but it is both a research tool and a knowledge-sharing community and is designed to be used in educational settings.

Once you have an educator account (took overnight for me) you can create and manage separate class groups, including passwords.

//Diigo builds on things most of our students and ourselves can manage - boomarking a webpage. The next step is to share it with a comment about it.//

Use Diigo for **sharing** information - where the webistes with good info are Use Diigo for **critiquing** infomation - how do decide what the good information is, how do we learn to trust a website? Use Diigo for **catagorising and organising** information - tag the good websites you find making them easier to retrieve when you need something.

**__Using Diigo__**
Using Diigo personally is quite easy and makes changing computers a breeze as all your best links are saved external to your computer. You can create groups with collegues and share links on curriculum topics. You can be a member of many diigo groups. My diigo bookmarks can be found [|here] You will see the public bookmarks I have. It is then possible to see the notes I have made on each webiste or to search by the tags I have put on them. For example, search for wedsites with 'game' as a tag.

**Using Diigo in the classroom**
This didn't really happen within the scope of this PL season. It is easy to set up a class site but hijacking a class to try it out on is a bit harder. I still intend to do this, possibly as a part of teaching information literacy skills in evaluating websites as it would be an excellent tool for that. After giving the students time to enter their best (or worst) sites you could use an interactive white board or projector to go examine the sites suggested. For reaearch project they have a way of accessing shared knowledge from school or home for private study.

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