Now that I have been playing with Diigo for a while, I am starting to like it. Whenever I go to a different computer in my house I can still find all my bookmarks. I have also learned how to find other people's bookmarks with similar tags such as mine. I am still working on making groups or lists. At the moment, it just looks like a list of bookmarks without any order.
From reading a recommended sites about Diigo at http://wiki.classroom20.com/Social+Bookmarking and reading Richarson's book I have learned a few applications for the classroom.
-you can create accounts for your school's departments or grade levels and teachers can all contribute to the databases of web resources
-you can collaborate on projects with other schools
-you can network with other teachers from around the world
-it gives the students live links to select instead of typing in the exact URL
-it let's students choose from a variety of acceptable trusted websites
-students can access the bookmarks outside of school for projects and research
-you can highlight or add sticky notes for your students
-the teacher can leave feedback on a student blog post and he/she can leave notes for the teacher
Richardson suggested setting up a "Best Practices" tag to share with parents and the school community.
The only problem I see right now is when students leave notes and comments for the teacher. Will the educator have time to read and check all the notes. Would it be safe to have students contacting people from around the world? Who is responsible for their activities at home on the Internet?
Just some thoughts.
Here is a link to my Diigo account:
http://www.diigo.com/user/snowdays
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