Digitaleducators2 - Social Bookmarking with Diigo. Social bookmarking is a way to save favorite Internet sites to an online "filing cabinet.
" The Common Craft video entitled, Social Bookmarking in Plain English provides a great, yet simple explanation of the value and purpose of social bookmarking. Diigo This is the most versatile social bookmarking tool! Why is this our social bookmarking service of choice? It provides so many other useful features in addition to saving and sharing bookmarks! Diigo Tutorials Get Diigo Get Diigo Toolbar Dave Ehrhart's Screencast on using Diigo in the classroom: Diigo: a social bookmarking research tool Tagging This is the most important aspect of the social bookmarking process.
Things to remember about tagging in Diigo: 1. Tutorials and information from the Diigo website: • Guided Tour • Flash Tutorials • Importing Existing Del.icio.us bookmarks • Importing Browser Bookmarks/Favorites • Diigo Blog Diigo 3: Diigo 3 promo video on YouTube: (Download new Diigo toobar.) New Features: PLN: Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy. What is a PLN?
If I had to define what a ‘Personal Learning Network’ is, I would keep it simple and broad: n. – the entire collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information, usually online. Personal Learning Networks, or PLNs, have been around forever. Originally, they were your family and friends, maybe other educators you worked with, but as the internet and web 2.0 tools have become nearly ubiquitous, PLNs can include tons of different communities – social networking sites like Facebook, blogs, Twitter, wikis, social bookmarking tools, LinkedIn, and so many more. Basically, anyone that you interact with is apart of your PLN, whether they are social contacts, professional peers, or experts in their field. PLNs have immense value! So, why bother thinking about your PLN? Capture the web you’ve been missing – Delicious. Social Bookmarking for Teachers. One of the easiest ways for teachers to share information with their students and other members of their PLNs is to partake in social bookmarking.
For those not in the know, think: social networking, only this time you are sharing bookmarks for commonly—as well as frequently used—sites instead of the oft times self aggrandizing status updates. How Does it Work? Imagine that you are researching online for sites to use for an upcoming unit or classroom project and have suddenly hit the mother lode of informative site. You want to share these with your students and maybe even some members of your online network of teacher friends. You’ve grown tired of creating a mass email or yet another website or wiki replete with links that constantly need to be catalogued and categorized; you want something more functional. That’s where sites like Diigo come in handy. Diigo also offers a variety of groups that users can subscribe to as well. Wondering How You Can Use It?