Your Web 2.0 Review Series #5: Social Bookmarking Software an...

use Diigo as a tool for student research, note taking, and commenting. Diigo is like Delicious, however it gives you the ability to highlight passages in articles and take notes on the passage or post comments or questions. I have the student or students invite me into the group they create. When they read the online article, bookmark it, highlight a passage, and add a comment to it I see what they have done since I'm a member of the group. Diigo is a great tool to monitor research, ask questions, or evaluate comments of students. Diigo bookmarks and tags sync with Delicious also. The Diigo toolbar can be installed on Firefox and IE, but it can’t be installed on Safari. Here is a screencast I made on the use of Diigo as a classroom teacher.

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When asked which social networking or Web 2.0 tool you could not give up - hands down it is delicious social bookmarking. http://del.icio.us

Features I appreciate and use often:
1. Personal network - I have added top leaders, thinkers, and developers in educational technology. By having a look at what they are posting, I become aware of quality sites and can view with interest where their current thinking is taking them.
2. Ability to send bookmarks to anyone in your network - just added their tag to the tag list.
3. Ability to view my bookmarks from any computer with an Internet connection.
4. Open to anyone who wants to view my bookmarks.
5. Ability to organize by tag designations.
6. High quality resources posted. The del.icio.us community are their own filter for content.

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