Week 2: Diigo in Education

[Melanie Jennings]

In this forum, we can discuss social bookmarking features unique to Diigo.

How do you use highlighting/sticky notes in your instructional activities?

Groups can be helpful in sharing resources and comments within a smaller community. How have you found groups to be effective/not effective in your own learning community?

Discussions/Messages provides an avenue to discuss online content within Diigo. Have you used this feature? To what effect?

Have you used Diigo in an instructional activity? Care to share?

[Catherine Lombardozzi]

Thank you all for being so generous in your posts on this tool... I had never heard of it before, and now I wonder if I might like some of Diigo's features for some purposes. No time now, but I'll be exploring this further at some point.

[Ruth Wahtera]

I appreciate your enthusiasm about Diigo, Melanie. It's encouraging me to try it out. And, it occurs to me that this may solve the professional vs. personal issue. I can use Diigo for particular projects with clients while continuing to use delicious for my on-going browsing/bookmarking. Well, that's a decision that should wait until I've played around more with Diigo.
Thanks.

[Melanie Jennings]

That's a great idea; one that I had not considered. You can set Diigo to automatically post bookmarks simultaneously to your del.icio.us account. This would allow you to bookmark professional sites to your Diigo account and still have them placed in your del.icio.us account. In doing so, your del.icio.us account would hold everything while your Diigo would hold just professional sites.

Good idea!
Melanie

Ruth Wahtera said:

I appreciate your enthusiasm about Diigo, Melanie. It's encouraging me to try it out. And, it occurs to me that this may solve the professional vs. personal issue. I can use Diigo for particular projects with clients while continuing to use delicious for my on-going browsing/bookmarking. Well, that's a decision that should wait until I've played around more with Diigo.
Thanks.

[Melanie Jennings]

The answer to Bill's question - and for others who may be wondering.

Hi Melanie,

Sorry for my late reply.. being swamped with work lately

yes you're right - I told him that my quickest fix was to just reshare the bookmark with the groups after making the revisions.

here is how it works - my bookmarks and group bookmarks are actually two separate databases. You may share different thing(s) to different group, so edit in my bookmark doesn't automatically trigger changes to the group(s) that you have already shared to. If we accommodate auto-change, then there would be other scenario(s) where this auto-change posting won't apply and cause potential issue.

So, the answer is if you have made changes and would like those changes posted to the group, then, yes, bookmark and share to that group again would be easiest way.

Hope this helps

Maggie Tsai

Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) said:

Melanie, I just shared a bookmark with our Diigo Work Literacy Course Group and noticed something interesting.

I had bookmarked a Camtasia demo site on Mindmeister (Mind Mapping) with notes containing URLs to sites. I then shared it with our group. When I went back to test links etc. I noticed a typo in my URL notes. So, I went back to my bookmarks and edited the notes expecting that this edit would carryover to the other groups I shared it with. It did NOT. I went to each group and edited the notes (3x).

Have you noticed this or did I not wait long enough for edit to propagate through from my bookmarks to my shared group sites?

Ciao, Bill...

[Bill Graziadei, Ph.D.]

Melanie, here's another issue with Diigo that I've noticed.

I like Diigo's options to go back and edit Title, Description and Tags. But, one can not edit URL. This creates a problem with some Web 2.0 sights that generate dynamic URLs. Yes, you can report the new bookmark but why bother. It would be nice if we could also edit the orignal URL.

[Dr. Salil Gupta]

Hi Melanie,

A few years back, Yahoo started to offer the facility to store bookmarks online on "My Yahoo". It was not dedicated to these bookmarks. You had the facility to get news based on tags stored by you and host of other services like a calander, reminders, etc. - and it is still there because I see my bookmarks still there.

I just read your overview of Diigo. Ver interesting and I am tempted to try it out. However, one question that crops up is - what do you do with those bookmarks on your home/ work computer? or, say how do you transfer the bookmarks that you have stored for years to Diigo?

Best wishes,

Salil

[Melanie Jennings]

Hello Salil,

The process of pulling your local bookmarks is a relatively simple one. In your Diigo Dashboard, go to Diigo Tools. In the left-hand navigation bar, click Import Bookmarks. At the bottom of the page, there are instructions for importing bookmarks using the Diigo Toolbar.

The import process pulls in the bookmarks from your browser, tagging those bookmarks with the folder names (if you have organized your bookmarks by folders). The biggest issue for me is finding the time to go back and re-tag the bookmarks with more descriptive tags. But it's certainly quicker than re-bookmarking every site in your local bookmarks or favorites folder!

Hope this is helpful!

Melanie

Dr. Salil Gupta said:

Hi Melanie,

A few years back, Yahoo started to offer the facility to store bookmarks online on "My Yahoo". It was not dedicated to these bookmarks. You had the facility to get news based on tags stored by you and host of other services like a calander, reminders, etc. - and it is still there because I see my bookmarks still there.

I just read your overview of Diigo. Ver interesting and I am tempted to try it out. However, one question that crops up is - what do you do with those bookmarks on your home/ work computer? or, say how do you transfer the bookmarks that you have stored for years to Diigo?

Best wishes,

Salil

[Bill Graziadei, Ph.D.]

Diigo Resource... see Diigo Training Wiki.

[Melissa Seifman]

I'm a career tech education teacher, teaching Computer Information Technology (electronics, pc repair, programming, networking, 3D) to secondary students. I've recently piloted using Diigo in the classroom for students to locate resources for senior projects, and simply discuss with each other what is going on. It is a bit slow catching on, but as students use the diigo resource more and more, I really see them sharing content and discussions that ARE related to their career tech education. Looks like all they needed was a little extra guidance, and it took over a mind of its own. When I view my students as friends, they are really looking at material that is related to their career or their research paper..and its interesting to add to this mental picture of my students.