Diigo is a social networking website where students can collaborate on the web. This feature makes it perfect for project based learning. According to the folks at Diigo:
- "Teachers can create student accounts for whole classes, students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can easily share bookmarks, annotations, and group forums, privacy settings so that only classmates and teachers can communicate with students".
- "Diigo allows teachers to highlight critical information within text and images and write comments directly on the web pages, to collect and organize series of web pages and web sites into coherent and thematic sets, and to facilitate online conversations within the context of the materials themselves. This feature makes Education Diigo a great place to create webquest type lessons and virtual field trips around the web. Diigo also allows teachers to collaborate and share resources among themselves. Education Diigo is a must for students who are learning to complete web-based research"!
Diigo Education Bog is an excellent recourse of information on this new and exciting educational tool.
Diigo Tutorial
Resources: - Steps to get started
- Admin. Functions
- FAQ's
- Tutorials
- Tutorial: Sharing bookmarks and notations.
- Help Files
- Share More Wiki
- Diigo help Center
- Slide Thinkfinity into the Curriculum with Diigo Slides