What is Diigo?

Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.” It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your ‘favorites’ online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.

As you read on the web, as well as bookmarking websites, you can also highlight parts of web pages that are of particular interest to you. Or, you can attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages. These highlights and sticky notes are persistent – whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!

The ‘social’ part of the bookmarking program is also very useful. With every Diigo user tagging and annotating pages online, the Diigo community has collectively created a wonderful repository of quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in.

For example, if you would like to find popular resources on e-learning, searching Diigo can probably get what you want in less time than using search engines, and you may also gain insights from other users.

 

For me, it is a great way to organize my bookmarks for resources that provides me accessibility anywhere.  On my iPad, my Android phone, and any computer that I have access to.

It also has allowed me to share resources with teachers from all over.  In a few weeks, my students will begin reading a book with classes from Mississippi and North Carolina.  The two teachers and I have been able to share our various resources through Diigo.

 

 

 

Watch this video to learn more about the numerous possibilities of using Diigo:

Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

To find out more information, visit 12 Reasons Teachers should use Diigo from where this information has been cross posted.

Try Diigo out, and let me know what you think!