Diigo

Diana Dunn's Diigo Library

1.      Tag & List.  You can highlight and annotate pages on the web and you can highlight content, add comments and then bookmark for ease of use later.

2.      Connect and Engage. I can follow not only my bookmarks but also those of others. I can join other groups and collaborate with them on their bookmarks or share my bookmarks with others.

3.      Get Personalized Content Recommendations.  I can see bookmarks that others have recommended.

Web 2.0 is the second generation of the web.  Its focus is to enable people to be able to share information and to collaborate online.  It is based on servicing web applications. Users can interact or collaborate virtually.

Social bookmarking allows us to tag a website for later use. You are actually saving it to the web and not to your web browsers.  It is a tool that allows us to store and search for bookmarks online. One of the main advantages over traditional bookmarking is that you can share them with other people and see what other people think are interesting.  Social bookmarking is able to rank the resource depending on how often it is used.

I created an accout with Diigo (link is at the top of this post) and installed Diigolett.   I think this lesson would meet ISTE Nets T Standard 5 - Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership.  Diigo would encourage professional growth by encouraging students to follow other bookmarks and to determine what's important to them by building their own library.

I joined a group on Diigo called Education Research because I am also in a class that focuses on educational research and there looked like there could be some good information there.  I also made a few little changes in my profile just to mess around with Diigo.  I bookmarked several articles about 21st Century Learning and ISTE standards.  I am having some problems with making things look nice but I'll get it figured out.

I use Internet Explorer and Google Chrome as my browsers. Brower add ons can be very useful depending on what you are doing.   They enhance the browser proram you use.  I added espell on to my browser and so far I really like it.  I can type a word in and it automatically gives me the definition.  I don't add much to my computer because I'm always afraid of downloading something I don't really want though I might try Ad Block Plus.