Diigo

The next internet tool I’d like to focus on is diigo.com. Diigo is a multifaceted website that can enhance learning as well as help with teacher’s organization. When preparing for either a lesson or a presentation, both teachers and students find the need to bookmark a web page. Bookmarked webpages allow for easy access back to those same webpages. Diigo not only help bookmark pages but also allows someone to highlight a certain part of the webpage. If you were to bookmark a page, sure I’d be easy to go back to that page thanks to the bookmark but you’d still have to hunt down the relevant part of the webpage. With diigo’s highlighting feature, the parts of a web page that are of interest to you will be easier to find. Students can be encouraged to use this feature while doing research on the internet. Diigo also lets you access those bookmarks and highlight from any computer.

Diigo also gives users the option to share the work done on the website. This feature allows teachers to form on-line learning groups. As a result, group work can take place without the students having to leave their homes. It can also let students share their work immediately with each other helping to build a strong collaborative academic environment.

The collaborative aspect of diigo can be taken a step further because the sharing isn’t just limited to students work and research done on-line by allowing students to see each other annotations without having ot download any software.