About:
Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to bookmark a series of websites and organizes them by the tags or categories you associate with the various websites. You can then form and share lists with other people to share those resources.
In the classroom: With Diigo, you can quickly compile a list of sources for your students to use for various projects along with various lists for different projects. Your students can use this to annotate webpages for critique, take screenshots, and send them back to you in order to complete assignments online.
Likes: In using Diigo, I have found that there are a number of positives to using this particular social bookmarking tool. First off, it's simple and straightforward. There isn't a in the way of visuals with this tool - something I like. It's very plain and practical in the way of a tool. I like how the websites can be narrowed down by list, or viewed by tag. Further, I also like the idea of using annotations to give a better description of each website
Dislikes: There is a lot of text. It would be nice if you could pick an icon out for each website in order to quickly peruse your bookmarks. I also wish that there were some way to permanently sort your bookmarks in alphabetical order.
Overall: Diigo on a personal level is a great idea in order to share bookmarks with friends and family – perhaps used as a type of wish list/ongoing Christmas list. In the classroom, Diigo has many more uses, especially in helping students learn/understand what a reliable source is through the restriction of websites. It will also prevent students from going overboard with resources for projects.
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