Diigo

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An online bookmarking site that enables you to bookmark, highlight, and annotate web pages. In addition, this site allows you to network with other users to share bookmarks and notes. Within a network there is also the ability to create groups.

Resources
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Strengths

 * Free
 * Easy to set-up and use
 * Optional browser interface
 * Ability to bookmark, highlight, and annotate web pages
 * Share bookmarks, highlights, and notes across a network
 * Ability to create groups based on interests, tags, and bookmarked sites
 * Suggests websites and groups you might be interested based on your bookmarks and groups
 * Sidebar for bookmarks
 * Premium educator accounts (FREE)
 * Easy to create student accounts without email addresses
 * Classes are automatically created into groups to facilitate the sharing of information
 * Privacy features for student accounts that only allows communication between students and teachers
 * Ads are filtered to appropriate for students
 * Is compatible with del.icio.us, however, the updates are slightly delayed (a few minutes)
 * Ability to show bookmarked web pages in a slide show based on tags, groups, ect.
 * Compatible with Firefox's most recent update--Firefox 4.1 (unlike del.icio.us)

Weaknesses

 * Must download interface to highlight and create sticky notes
 * Must invite friends, rather then just adding them to your network. It eliminates the ability to follow someone and requires the networking to go both ways.
 * Key word search engine feature unavailable. Viewers have to click link-by-link in order to view multiple source options.

Opportunities

 * Network and collaborate with other classrooms and educators to share interests and knowledge
 * Tag and share resources for projects
 * Provide students with live links instead of copying and pasting or typing long URLs
 * Ability to add RSS feed to your network to see what new sites and tags other people are adding
 * Use the highlighting and annotating features to give feedback for online students projects (web pages, blogs, wikis, slideshows)
 * Since you can write directly on the website and save it, the need to print out sources greatly diminishes

Threats

 * Tags do not equal a trusted source or a good information
 * If the website changes or moves you can lose your annotations and highlights

Ideas for Use in the Classroom

 * Using the stick-note feature, a teacher can feature a website and ask students to comment on a big picture question. Each student gets to contribute their own thoughts and ideas and read those of the classmates.
 * Online research collaboration
 * Teacher can post links s/he wants students to visit on Diigo with explicit instructions dependent on the assignment.

Classroom Examples

 * Click here for examples using Diigo in the Classroom

Use for Administrators

 * Save bookmarks for resources to share with school staff.
 * Highlighting feature allows you to highlight important inforamtion and share it with your staff.
 * Use Diigo notes to post reminders and questions to discuss and ask school staff later.
 * Explore Diigo groups and recommend groups to staff members or set up your own Diigo group.
 * Create a professional library of web resources.
 * Use it as an online professional development tool.
 * Create a parent group to share resources and information.

For more information view "10 Possible Ways for Administrators to Use Diigo" by J. Robinson