About Diigo
Diigo is a very useful research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other hand.
A Personal Research Tool
Diigo can really improve your research productivity. Diigo is a very good tool to use when researching because you can highlight an important line or paragraph. You can also use sticky notes, to stick on the pages that you’re researching. One of the coolest things is that your highlights and sticky notes will stay there every time you come back, just like your book.
A Collaborative Research Platform
Diigo lets you share your research with friends, teammantes, and your colleagues. It will show all the highlighted points and the sticky so they can know what you have done.
A Social Content Site
Diigo users use tags to tag their research, so they have a very good community online that has created a wonderful repository of quality content. You can just type in one work that your about to research on and Diigo says ” they can probably get what you want in less time than using search engines, and you may also gain insights from other users”. They also have very good annotating pages online.
A Knowledge-Sharing Community
Diigo can provide new ways to connect with others who share similar interests. You can find "people like me" - those who are closest to you in interests, or search people by tags or sites to find others who share certain specific interests with you. Once you find someone you like you can add them to your friends list or add them to your watch list
Pros
- Very good for gorup research becuase you can see what your peers are working on.
- Bookmakrs your website that you are looking at.
- Highlights the important parts you want.
- Sticknotes where you want it, and you can view it.
- All the highlighted and stick notes will stay even if you close the website.
- The only con is that the teacher cant view your account if your working on it in the classroom.
This webstie can be used in any class that has research based projects, and will we a really use-full tool. We really got good in-puts form the class we visted on friday, they said they really liked it and were going to use it for all their classes.
Links to useful training materials, demonstrations and examples:
Username: WLMackenzie
Password: teacher
You can see all the examples I and Noah did.
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