Assignment 2--Diigo and Social Bookmarks

I have worked with Diigo for several semesters now, and have begun introducing it to my students for research purposes.  I showed them how if they are working on a group assignment they can share a website with their fellow group members.  Last semester while working on a project for another class; my fellow group members and I actually used Diigo for this purpose.  Students like how they can have all of their favorite Internet sites managed by a single account.  It does not matter if one site is bookmarked at home and another is bookmarked at school.

Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff is a wonderful Web 2.0 resource tool for anyone, because it provides two resources in one. On one hand it is a research and collaborative tool, and on the other hand is a knowledge sharing community social content tool.

Diigo has covered all of its bases in terms of allowing visitors to organize the wealth of information accessible from its site. It allows you to organize your bookmarks by tagging or placing in lists for future use. You can then search for items later by tags or by full-text. Users can also bookmark, highlight, or add sticky notes to information to ensure they can find it in the future. Through the site you can connect with other groups that have similar interests and share valuable information with other educators.  Another great feature of Diigo is how you can cross-post with Delicious. If new subscribers aren’t ready to let go of their Delicious account they can cross post all of their bookmarks from Delicious with Diigo.


Diigo was a really neat and fun assignment to do. In researching the 15-20 bookmarks related to the class; I was able to find some interesting content. Seeing how easy it was to collaborate with other educators and share information was really motivating for me. It was even more amazing at some of the positive feedback I received from others, thanking me for some of the information that I had shared.
While I had worked a little with Delicious–Diigo was very easy to use. I liked how you were able to Twitter or post to your Facebook–all from one centralized location. This made the site very user friendly. I will definately continue to use this web resource in the future with the classes I teach and take.

You can see my bookmarks in Diigo by clicking on the following link:

http://www.diigo.com/user/apayne31