Social Bookmarking using Diigo

I can't believe I never knew that a site like Diigo existed.  I am not a first adopter but I somewhat pride myself to at least know what is going on.  I enjoy reading and learning via a variety of media: books, on my computer, and on my smart phone.  As it happens, I just installed Pocket as a chrome extension a couple of weeks ago to save and tag websites that have interested me. Previously, I just bookmarked and tagged them.  The problem, to me, was I never could create notes for each website. I enjoy showing Ted movies to my class, but I never could really remember some of the fine points of the video so I would have to go back and either watch or read it again.  (most Ted videos have a transcript associated with it)  Now, I will be able to just highlight the relevant ideas I want to share with my class from each script.  I have also used Keep.Google.com  to organize some of my thoughts. This is a great tool for list making but doesn't really do the job I needed it to do for websites.  Diigo will also help me keep track of things that interest me in my personal life. Interestingly, it seems that I have started using Twitter as a news gathering place for me.  I have been reading interesting articles that friends and acquaintances retweet.  I am also able to follow a variety of news outlets that interest me on Twitter.  News, sports, education, technology, money etc.  Its like having my own personal newspaper on my phone.  Now I will be able to see and read what other people have thought about a particular website they have visited

Here is a screenshot of my books mark bar.  What a mess!

As you can see, I have only some of my TED talks here.  What do they contain? How are they similar?  Can a couple be part of a unit?  You get the idea
















Here is a sample of what Pocket looks like

You can see I have a football site, a site for my business law class, and a TED talk.  I am able to tag them but I still do not know what is inside.







Another great aspect of Diigo is to not only be able to highlight and save annotations from a website, but SHARE them with like minded people.

Here is a sample of my new Diigo account.  You can see I have the webite, an annotation and a note a created for myself..Pretty cool

I think this activity most closely matches ISTE Standard 1 (Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity) because this will help us facilitate learning in our classroom.  Students will be able to collaborate on different ideas.  I feel learning is done best when students can help and discuss ideas with each other