Sunday, October 19, 2008

Diigo: Practical Use in the Classroom

Diigo is a great tool to share websites of interest with a class. This can be very useful when a class is working on a particular project, and the teacher wants to limit the search to specific websites and/or guide the activity during classtime or when students are at home.

I've setup a Diigo account of my own and have compiled a list of 13 websites that will be used as part of my critical information literacy project. I will invite the students in my class to view the collected bookmarks as a reference in class and out of class.

Using a tool like Diigo makes it much easier to share bookmarks without having to copy and paste into e-mail or forward a Powerpoint presentation. Groups can be created in Diigo so that bookmarks specific to a particular lesson, grade or class can be easily shared.

This is a tool that will be invaluable to teachers who want to share and organize online access to websites that are relevant to a lesson.

Check out my Diigo page at www.diigo.com/profile/skearney

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