Monday, April 16, 2012
Diigo stands for "Digest of internet information groups and other stuff." This is an organizer's dream tool. Organize, store, and collect just about any type of media including audio, video, bookmarks, notes, and much more. So how does this help with teaching?
Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and reliable way to save and organise your favourite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other media found online.
Diigo provides a lists feature that allows you to share carefully selected bookmarked websites with your students.
Diigo has tools that encourage students to collaborate with others to analyse, critique and evaluate websites.
Diigo provides opportunities for students to apply higher level thinking skills while researching and gathering information.
Diigo allows you to gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the internet.
Diigo allows you to develop your own professional learning network (PLN).
Diigo provides a forum for teachers and students to discuss areas of share interest, or a particular online website or resource using the ‘topics’ function within groups.
Use Diigo to provide visual access to websites you have collected using the built in program ‘webslides’
Use Diigo’s advanced tools to link its power to blogs and RSS. Lists of similar websites that you have created can easily be posted onto a blog by using the ‘post to blog’ button.
Use Diigo tools to enhance professional reading and save time creating summaries of online posts.
Access your information from any computer, or even your iPhone or iPad!
Uses provided by http://resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/12-reasons-teachers-should-use-diigo/
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