Diigo

I am going to try to use diigo this weekend to search for information for a middle school science unit I have to do on ecosystems.

I still do not quite understand what the "Diigolet" is...

My browser is Firefox. For searching stuff, I prefer to use google over all the other search engines.

I enjoyed reading the article on using this site for students in the classroom. This would be a great tool to teach students how to research and understand science writings. It would help students going into science, technology, and engineering.

It is important to remember that teachers need to teach students how to have substantial conversations with their peers and this is best done by showing them appropriate examples.

If I were to use Diigo in the classroom, I would need to come up with a Tagging Language. I haven't come up with a tag language for my bookmarks yet.

I also really liked the roles a teacher can assign to the students for bookmarking and for the annotations. My only question would be, do you allow the students to choose who gets those roles by their interests and abilities, or do you rotate them to make sure they all get a taste of what is required in all the roles. It might make sense to do this in middle school and then, by high school, allow the teams to choose their own roles.

Social bookmarking - what a great idea! To be able to share with others your interests and save time in the process! I also love that this is a global idea. Would we be able to have our students share a dialogue with students in another country? If so, that would be eye-opening for them.

I have to work with the site to see if it really is a good way to store and organize my bookmarks. Right now, I have no way of organizing my favorites, so I look forward to being able to do so!