Diigo

Another new experience today. The assignment was to register for Diigo and explore its uses. What are the uses?

• Social Bookmarking Tool

• Manage, share, organize the web pages you view

 The browser I am currently using with Diigo is Mozilla Firefox. Now, I have used other browsers such as Internet explorer and AOL explorer. Of the three, Firefox is my favorite. It is the easiest to use and it seems to load information faster. Diigo allows you to add a Diggolet, which is a book marker that also allows you to create sticky notes about the web pages you are using. Very convenient. 


Diigo also offers a browser add-on in the form of a toolbar, which is the most common add-on. I have had a few different tool bars in other browsers I have used such as AOL. They all have different features though, but the most common are news, email, and weather. I have never had a problem installing any add-ons.


ISTE stands for International Society for Technology in Education. There are several standards that ISTE has created and the one I feel would closely match this activity is:

• model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

The reason being we were presented with an assignment to become familiar with a social bookmarking tool and asked to use the tool to keep track of articles we will find useful in our teaching experiences.  We can now make use of Diigo and share different web pages with our students of the future and also create groups within the classroom for activity purposes.