Diigo

Bookmarking that's Social

My Progress:

What I knew when I began

What I'd learned by October

What I know now:






A Podcast on using Diigo for PD, Teaching and Learning:

Embracing 21st Century Education Podcast - Diigo.egg on Aviary.

What I've learned on Diigo this week

Here is another screencast that I made. It shows you what I've done so far on my Diigo account. (to get a full screen view, click on the screen icon in the lower right hand corner)



























Watch it on Screencast.com.

Is it possible to have 1000 bookmarks?

I found a video that helped me understand what exactly Diigo is: 

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In summary Diigo is a place (a website) where information, knowledge and community come together.


Right now my Diigo account is a dumping ground for personal and PD webpages. Richardson (2010) says that Diigo is one of his favourite Web 2.0 tools because one can bookmark (and actually make an archive) a webpage, annotate and highlight content and collaborate with others (pp. 92-95). Until I read his book I knew that Diigo bookmarked webpages and you could highlight content, but I have only ever used it as bookmarker. It was no different than having the bookmarks on my web browser, where one of the benefits of Diigo is that it is web based, providing me the ability to access bookmarks from any device.

My first attempt at highlighting and annotating. So proud of myself!

Joyce Valenza indicates that Diigo can be used by students as a research tool and for teacher’s PLNs because there are Diigo groups that can be bookmarked in order to get up-to-date information on the chosen topic. A teacher from Ann Arbor feels that Diigo’s best feature is that note taking skills (recognize main point, look for supporting arguments, summarize and react to texts), which are transferable, can be used extensively when using Diigo. Over the semester I hope that I will be able to demonstrate my ability to bookmark, annotate, highlight and share webpages with others in the Diigo world.

Yes, there is lots of food on my boards.

I heard of Pinterest when my sister-in-law showed it to me this summer. I was very excited to start using Pinterest because I find it so much easier to find a bookmark that is a picture versus text. Pinterest was launched March 2010 but is still in private testing. One needs to be invited by another Pinterest user or email a request to register (Pinterest, 2011) Though new, Pinterest was selected as one of Time magazines best websites for 2011.

I have been using Pinterest to advocate libraries and technology integration by pinning images that I find on blogs and Twitter.  I am really excited to delve into Pinterest because I have had more interest in my resources this month in Pinterest, than I have had on any other Web 2.0 tool that I have used.  Other people are ‘liking’ and ‘repining’ my images which makes me feel like my advocating is working and I want to move this forward:-)


Here is a screencast of where I am at with Diigo and Pinterest:

Just in case the embedding doesn't work, here is a link: Bookmarking Sites

Attempting to Kill Two Birds (Twitter& Diigo) with One Stone

So I am already off my inquiry timeline. I wasn't supposed to be playing with Diigo for two more weeks. But in order for me to play with Twitter properly, I need to play with Diigo right now. Guess these Web 2.0 tools are intertwined.

As mentioned two posts ago I start by going to Twitter; I find an article in a Tweet that I want to read. I click on the link, I start reading the article and I think to myself, 'I wish I could highlight this.' That is when I wish I had a Diigo app for my iPad. Wait a seccond, I do have a Diigo app for my iPad!! I close out of Twitter, I look for the app on my screen, click on it and explore.

It's useless. I can only read my saved bookmarks. I can't highlight or annotate. As I click on every link in the app, I end up at the App store. The screenshots show me a totally different app. Why doesn't that app look like mine? I search google, I go to Diigo help forums. I just keep hitting buttons.

And then something occurs to me: What if there are TWO apps? One for the iPad and one for the iPhone?? What if I am using the wrong app? Oh,wouldn't that be stupid of me.

I go to my desktop screens on my iPad and look to see if I have two Diigo apps. Sure enough, I do. I've been using the wrong app. They look exactly alike so there was no way for me to know which was the iPad app and which was the iPhone app.

Mystery solved. I am now going to go play with Diigo using the proper app.

Where am I supposed to put all the 'good stuff' I find on Twitter?!?

I sat down to 'play' with Twitter on my iPad when I saw a tweet I wanted to look up. I clicked on the link, quickly looked at the story and decided I didn't have time right now to read it - I wanted to figure out Twitter!

This is where I always get stuck. If I was reading this news article via Google Reader I could email the whole article to myself or to my Evernote account. But since it was just a webpage, I was only able to email myself the link. I don't think the link itself is very useful. I want the whole story. I looked at how I could share it and decided to Diigo it. I sent it off to my Diigo account which currently is a disorganized mess. I told myself that I'd get it all cleaned up in two weeks when I explored Diigo for my inquiry.

Oh, no. I am off topic again. I am supposed to be exploring Twitter.

But I just can't do it. There is no point in me following tweets if I have no where to put the information, or if I just add it to my dumping ground. I will never remember all this 'good stuff'. I need to take a step back from Twitter and set a support system up. I am going to do two things:

1) Diigo articles just like I mentioned above. I will organize it all in two weeks.
2) I need to fine tune my Evernote organization. It's the best place that I have found so far to keep all my 'finds'.

So that is what I am doing right now: playing with Evernote. I have already found a feature that I was hoping would be implemented, so I am going to leave this blog and go play.