Wow. As I work more with Diigo, I am in awe of its capabilities. This is a great tool for telecollaboration. I have already setup a selection of bookmarks for my critical info literacy project. The ability to share bookmarks with the class is a great feature.
Even cooler, however, is my ability to highlight relevant text on those websites and add an annotation for the class to review. This ability to highlight and annotate websites is so powerful, especially when a teacher is trying to direct attention to a particular sentence, picture, etc. on a website that is more likely than not distracting. This is also useful if I want to project the website on a screen for the class to see the notes and highlighting that I've added ahead of time.
Check out more educational uses for Diigo on Clay Burrell's blog, Beyond School.
Click here to see a great summary video of Diigo features on YouTube Diigo - Improving how we find, share, and save information
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Diigo sounds like such a great tool. My favorite part is the ability to highlight relevant text on the websites and annotate the websites. This sounds like Kurzweil which we use with the students. You can scan in pages of a book and you can highlight, post questions, and more. I have never heard of this for a website. I love how you can focus the students to a particular part of a website like you mentioned, Susan. I have previously had to use my mouse to try and show them where I am looking, but with the highlighter feature it will be much easier. Thanks!
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