Diigo

Diigo (www.diigo.com) is a free online application that allows anyone to add highlights or comments onscreen to any Web-based text (Carr, 2008). Diigo allows you to research and explore articles that are of your interest and share them within the knowledge sharing community. It allows you to connect with the world and view people of similar interests to yours.

1. Describe 3 steps to recommend in the film to get started social bookmarking?
               > You are able to explore and do intensive research to find web sources that are of you particular interest
              > Connect with the world; allowing you to discuss through messages or comments the interest you have in common with a particular web source.
              > You are in control of your account, you have the ability to easily navigate through the site, organize how you want it to look, ability to share and display.

2. Describe Web 2.0 and how it differs from previous stages of the web?
                - Web 2.0 has multiple tools that allows the user to make their account/ page their own, not what the company wants it to be. The system is easy to navigate, giving a sidebar that will open up any source you are looking for, allows you to open your sources to the world and be able to connect to more people then just the people you already know.

3. What is social bookmarking and what advantages does it offer that traditional storage and retrieval of websites does not?
                  - Social bookmarking is a tool that allows users to use the internet and organize, store and manage to search for bookmarks of resources online. The advantages of bookmarking is that it is a secure tool, opening more doors then the traditional storage sources. Bookmarking also allows teachers to let students have classroom discussion on articles, and have the ability to research and view more; sharing interests and dislikes.


Diigo account is.............https://www.diigo.com/user/adipietro1818

When adding the account which was the easy part, you need to have the Dioglet to be able to bookmark, highlight, share and so forth; this to me was the most frustrating piece because after I downloaded it stayed at one page, so when existing and going back to the page it brought up the same thing as before. It would not allow me to drag and just save to my favorites bar, so eventually I just saved it in a file and have to drag it out that way in order to work; a little frustrating but tolerable. So if anyone else finds a better solution, please comment :)

These tools that are included in the browser add on give you the option to bookmark it if it something of your interest or maybe can be useful down the road. It allows you to highlight something you are researching and do not want to whole entire text, you can share your ideas or findings with people on facebook, twitter or send to your own account, also you can read a piece later if your just not up to it at that particular time,

Standards:

3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning- b.Collaborate with students, peers, parents and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digitals tools to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information resources to support research and learning.