Diigo

Tonight on Edtechtalk‘s Making Connections with Cathy Evanoff, we had as our guest Maggie from Diigo. She demonstrated some of the features of Diigo, a social bookmarking site. Diigo allows you to collect, organize, share and collaborate online information with others. As an educator, this is a wonderful tool to use both professionally and personally to store websites for quick and easy retrieval when you need them.

I really like the annotating features that allow you to highlight and make notes on a website. The highlight feature allows you to highlight specific information on a page. You could then share that highlighted information with a friend. I can also add a sticky note to possibly share with others how I might have used the information on the page. The new Diigo, to be out very soon, will allow you to clip a video such as one from YouTube or TeacherTube and add it to your bookmarks. How cool is that?

Another highlight of the Diigo site is being able to join groups where you can collaborate on topics of your choice. You can also start a group where others can collaborate and add bookmarks as well. There are numerous other tools and options for using this site. You’ve got to check it out.

With the wealth of information at our fingertips, this is a much needed tool to help with organization of information.