What is Diigo?
The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".
According to Wikipedia, Diigo is "a social bookmarking
website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages.
Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.
These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else.
Get an Account
To get started, you should first get an account at http://www.diigo.com/sign-up.
After you submit the registration form online, confirmation email will be sent to your email account.
Click the link in the email to activate your account.
Install the Tool
Then, you can install diigo toolbar at http://www.diigo.com/tools.
You should also see the following directions on that page:
1. Click the "Install Diigo Toolbar" button below.
2. Click "Edit Options" at the top-right of your screen and your browser will open a panel. Click "Allow", and close this panel. (important!)
3. Click the "Install Diigo Toolbar" button below again, and then click "Install".
4. Restart your browser and you should be able to see the tool bar on your browser.
On that page http://www.diigo.com/tools, you can also see some examples of how online annotation works by using diigo. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diigo for more diigo annotations.
Diigo Basics: Bookmark Webpages and Make Annotations
The following tutorial shows how to:1. bookmark a webpage
2. highlight a paragraph on a webpage
3. make annotations
4. continue a discussion
Note: As is shown in the tutorial, you can choose to make your bookmarks/annotations visible only to yourself, to a group of people or to everybody.
Diigo Basics
More about Diigo:
1. Manage your bookmarks(1) Go to "My Bookmarks" to change the property of your bookmarks: make them public/private, add/delete tags, and so on.
(3) Go to "My Lists" to create lists, put your bookmarks under lists, and play the bookmarks under a list as an interactive slideshow
2. Create groups
(1) Go to "My Groups" to "create a new group"
(2) Type in your group name and other information
(3) Type in the email addresses of those people you want to invite, and click "invite".
(4) Share a bookmark with your group
3. Get Connected with others
(1) Go to "Friends and Contacts" to invite your friends and see their bookmarks
(2) Go to "Messages" to see whether your friends are online and send them messages
(3) Go to "Communities" to find groups that share the same interest with you
4. Get Personalized Content Recommendation
(1) Go to "Diigo"--"Recommended Bookmarks" on the toolbar
(2) Go to "Meet People"--"People like me"
Educational Use of Diigo
An example of how Diigo can be used.
Let's go to the online discussion forum, and explore the educational use of Diigo together .
Resources
Find more tutorials about Diigo here.
