This is a conference presentation at the MECA 2011 Conference in Jackson, Mississippi on February 8, 2011

1. Using Diigo in the Classroom
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
2011 MECA Conference
Jackson, Mississippi
February 8, 2011

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4. What is Social Bookmarking?
A Web-based service to share
bookmarks or favorites
A collection of favorites – yours and
everyone else's – Delicious
A method for Internet users to
organize, store, manage and search
for bookmarks of resources online –
Wikipedia

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6. Social Bookmarking Services

7. Digest of
Internet
Information,
Groups and
Other stuff

8. Image Source: http://www.diigo.com

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10. Diigo is three services in one
A simple place to store, access and
share your bookmarks
A research and collaboration tool
A Knowledge-sharing community and
social content site
A Social Information Network (SIN)

14. Image Source: http://www.diigo.com

15. Diigo Features
 Highlighting
 Functional commenting and real conversations
 Send bookmarks to Facebook or Twitter with 1 click
 Simultaneously bookmark things to Diigo and Delicious
 Bookmark and search entire Web pages
 Create classes or groups
 Import and export bookmarks
 Diigo toolbar, Diigo extension, and Diigolet
 Diigo for iPhone and Android
 Auto blog post

16. Sign Up for Free Account

17. Create Your Profile

18. Install Diigo Toolbar

19. Image Source: http://www.diigo.com

20. Diigolet
 Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo
toolbar, but it can be set-up by simple drag-and-
drop - no download or installation needed, and it
works for all major browsers.
 Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you
to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to
simple bookmarking.
 http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet

21. Bookmark Online Favorites

22. Highlight & Annotate with Diigo

23. Import Bookmarks

24. Export Bookmarks

25. Cross-Post Your Bookmarks
to Delicious

26. Create Daily Blog Post

27. Twitter This

28. Send to Blog, Twitter, and
Facebook

29. Site Communities
http://www.diigo.com/community/sites

30. Tag Communities
http://www.diigo.com/tag

31. Searching with Diigo

32. Contacts

33. Messages

34. Create and Join Diigo Groups

35. Group Settings

36. Diigo Educators Accounts
 www.diigo.com/education
 Provided to K-12 & higher-education educators
 Create student accounts for an entire class
 Automatically set up a Diigo group for students
that allows group bookmarks and annotations, and
group forums
 Pre-set privacy settings to student accounts and
allows communications for teachers and students
only
 Limit the content of ads related to education

37. Student Accounts
 Classmates in the same class are automatically
added as friends with one another to facilitate
communication.
 The Library view shows a student all of his
bookmarks and annotations. Teacher can view this
data in the Teacher Console.
 Students can only communicate with their friends
and teachers and comment on each others postings.
This is a great way to give feedback and ask
questions.
 Student profiles will not be indexed for People
Search, nor made available to public search engines

38. Teacher Console

39. Manage Members

40. Using Diigo in the Classroom
• Students and teachers can use Diigo as a
personal research tool
• Students and teachers can access bookmarks from
anywhere, anytime
• Students and teachers can join groups, share ideas,
collaborate, and organize resources
• Students and teachers can search for the most popular
content, subscribe to the most recent, tags, bookmarks
of users
• Teachers can have students to share course-related
bookmarked resources, literature reviews source
archives, group projects and activities, and WebQuest
resources

41. Using Diigo in the Classroom
• Teachers can add comments to the student’s sticky
notes and give them ideas and suggestions to their
project
• Schools can set up groups to where academic
resources are shared amongst a group of teachers.
• Teachers or curriculum writers can annotate curriculum
documents and add sticky notes and comments
• Teachers can annotate state education agency memos
and reports for their administrators
• Teachers can create a slideshow of clickable websites
grabbed from students’ bookmarks
• Students and teachers can publish their annotations
and comments to their blogs or embed linkrolls and
tagrolls onto a wiki or website

42. WebSlides - http://slides.diigo.com/

43. Going Mobile
Diigo Power Note for Android Diigo Offline Reader for iPhone/iPod Touch
Source: http://www.diigo.com

44. The End
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