Diigo


 * Social Bookmarking with DIIGO **

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[|Diigo]
This is the most versatile social bookmarking tool! Why is this our social bookmarking service of choice? It provides so many other useful features in addition to saving and sharing bookmarks! Diigo enables you to forward your saved sites to others, enhancing collaboration. It's also a great tool for researching because it allows you to highlight text and add sticky notes to any web page. Diigo provides another tool for collaboration by allowing the creation of user groups and discussion forums. Diigo also interacts with Delicious and other bookmarking tools through the use of the Add Elsewhere button. Web pages can be linked together through the use of the webslides feature.

[|Diigo Tutorials]
Get [|Diigo] Get [|Diigo Toolbar] Dave Ehrhart's Screencast on using Diigo in the classroom: [|Diigo: a social bookmarking research tool]
 * [|Getting Started - Overview and setting up your account]
 * [|Installing the Toolbar and Importing other Bookmarks]
 * [|Bookmarking, Highlighting, and StickyNotes]
 * [|Navigating Your Bookmarks]
 * [|Tagging in more detail]

[|More Diigo Tutorials...]

**Tagging**
This is the most important aspect of the social bookmarking process. Tags are simply keywords that you include when you bookmark a site. The secret to tags is that they can be searched/filtered and then filtered again and again in a hierarchical fashion as needed. For example, if users in our district apply the tag “Lex1” to every bookmark and then they also add other more specific tags such as level, HS (high school), MS, ES, subject area, specific content (a math site might be tagged like this – lex1, es, 3,4,5, math, geometry, shapes). Now, a user could do a tag search for Lex1. This is going to result in all the bookmarks tagged with Lex1. Then, this search can be further filtered by adding the Math tag to the search. This results in just the bookmarks with both the Lex1 and Math tags. Now, the user may choose to add the geometry tag to the search and the results would be further filtered so that they only included bookmarks that had the Lex1, Math, and Geometry tags. This process helps teachers drill down to the exact content they are looking for in a simple and timely fashion. The more tags the better!! The process, or science, of tagging has been named [|Folksonomy].
 * **Example Tags for Content Areas:** ||
 * **ELA** || **Math** || **Sc** || **SS** || **Art** ||
 * Communication || Advanced || Earth || Communication || Aesthetics ||
 * Reading || Algebra || Physical || Geography || Elements ||
 * Literature || Data || Life || Current_Events || Famous ||
 * Writing || Geometry || Inquiry || Global || History ||
 * Grammar || Measurement || Physics || US || Media ||
 * || Numbers_and_Operations || Astronomy || SC ||  ||
 * || Process ||  || Local ||   ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || [[image:https://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/insert_table.gif caption="external image insert_table.gif"]] ||
 * **Music** || **PE/Health** || **World Languages** || **Guidance** || **CaTe** ||
 * Analyzing || Family_living || Spanish || Careers || Arts/Humanities ||
 * History || Health || French || Parenting || BusinessMgmt ||
 * Improvising || Personal || German || Social_skills || Consumer ||
 * Reading || Physical || Japanese || Study_skills || Engineering ||
 * Singing || Sports ||  ||   || Health ||
 * Band ||  ||   ||   || Public ||
 * Chorus ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Orchestra ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Orchestra ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

**Things to remember about tagging in Diigo:**
1. Tags can be separated by a space or a space and a comma. 2. Individual tags need to be just one word… If you use two word phrases without linking them with an “under_score” or creating “compoundwords” by eliminating the space between the words, then effectively you are adding two tags. 3. To save time tags should be short when appropriate. 4. The more tags the better. 5. Tags in Diigo are all converted to lowercase text.

Tutorials and information from the Diigo website:
• [|Guided Tour] • [|Flash Tutorials] • [|Importing Existing Del.icio.us bookmarks] • [|Importing Browser Bookmarks/Favorites] • [|Diigo Blog]