Dhaivyd and I worked a bit on considering using delicious for a bookmarking site for students working on the big 12th grade English research paper. I wasn't completely sold on it but I liked the idea of saving bookmarks to the "cloud" instead of to my computer (Note to self: easier check off on that end-of-the-school-year checklist if I don't have any bookmarks on my school computer. Plus, I don't need to figure out how to reload them and I can access them from anywhere? Sold).
So, this tech tool brought me to diigo. There are various things I like about this site. One, it has the bookmarking feature- bookmarking on the "cloud." A perk? You can upload bookmarks from a past delicious account. See here for info.
Adding highlights and annotations was pretty easy. I can possibly see this coming into use for my English/Reading classes. I work collaboratively reading online news articles with a professor from MCTC and students could possibly annotate news articles as they read them. This would help information retention and active reading. Also, students could save news articles to "read later" (a function on diigo).
I personally like the read later tab. I find that I repeat those words (I'll read this later) to myself over and over and then do nothing to the websites and eventually lose them. Here's hoping for some summer productivity.
I agree with Mr. Kemmis' comment on the image function.
Some consideration for possible further uses of diigo in my classroom include possibly using the knowledge sharing tool- possibly having students save and annotate online sources for their research papers through diigo and then sharing that with me. Or, I also want to look a bit at the group-based collaborative searching ideas. I could possibly just have a research paper account and students throughout the years bookmark useful articles. Then that is helping the students after them.
Here is a link to my diigo page. I think it is public for all (which I haven't decided whether it's good or not?)
