I must admit, Thing 6 took me a while to do. I'm still not sure I've done everything I was supposed to. But I did join Diigo, I created an account, uploaded all my bookmarks from my classroom computer and tagged them. It was a little weird seeing how many people were actually taking a look at my bookmarks. I felt a little like a Diigoneesta. Feel free to check them out at:
I was at a PLC meeting last Thursday and brought Diigo up as a way for AES to communicate with the ArtNow team. (Just a quick aside. We are collaborating with ArtNow to infuse art into our curriculum.) Anyway we were discussing how to share information and I mentioned the Web 2.0 course I was taking. I explained what Diigo was, I'm sure not very intelligently, but the ArtNow folks seemed interested in it and the possibilities it might offer.
I actually convinced one colleague to join, which she did immediately and befriended me. I'm going to attempt to challenge her to contact Caroline and keep using Diigo til the end of the course.
So to answer the question posed in my title, "To Diigo or not to Diigo?" I say Diigo, I defintely can see the benefit for having my bookmarks available online. The ease in which they can be shared and added to makes it a valuable to tool for me professionally. I can work anywhere ~ even at home. Getting my colleagues to join makes it even more a more useful tool than emailing. Instead of having to exchange emails about sites we visited and wanted to share, they can just log on and peruse them at their leisure.
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I've been using Diigo all year, but Thing 6 took me some time also. I don't know if I was doing it wrong or if it has something to do with people dropping this awesome Web 2.0 class and/or getting behind in it. I honestly think it is the second one. If you are the first to create the account then you can't search for the other classmates until they make the account.
ReplyDelete"The ease in which they can be shared and added to makes it a valuable to tool for me professionally. I can work anywhere ~ even at home. Getting my colleagues to join makes it even more a more useful tool than emailing. Instead of having to exchange emails about sites we visited and wanted to share, they can just log on and peruse them at their leisure."
ReplyDeleteDing, Ding, Ding!!! Wow, you've hit on several key features and advantages of social bookmarking!
1) Sharing
2) Access anywhere, anytime
3) Collaborative
I hope you're able to convince your ARtsNow team to give it a try. You might even consider creating a Diigo group for your ArtsNow team so you can all share your links in a common place. Yes, you can easily share them to each other, but having a central group is also nice because you can always return to the group to peruse what's there and who uploaded it.
Personally, I'm pleased to hear that you've given Diigo a thumb's up!!