Discovering Diigo...

Using the Social Bookmarking site, I was able to create links to webpages that uses some of the website's features: 

• The link that I created will take you to an example of an Annotated Webpage. The highlighted section in green explains how social bookmarking can be used in an English classroom. The sections highlighted in yellow is another reader who left comments about social bookmarking. This webpage shows different viewpoints of a webpage. Several readers can highlight or leave comments for other readers on the same webpage if they make annotated comments public.

• This link I created called teacher accounts explains how to create a teacher's account on the diigo website. It also discusses the features of the diigo website. Since there are many advertisements on the page, I highlighted the sections that are the steps needed to create the teacher's account.

• Lastly, this is how the website groups would look if you visited the page. I labeled the above webpages into a group called Diigo. This way you can see the webpages I referenced in an organized list: http://www.diigo.com/list?token=214d652fe8e0d2fd0be1b623ae674c2a

• Another website that gives directions on how to set up a teacher's account on the diigo website is: http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/f/Handout_DiigoDirectionsTeachers.pdf. Since this is a pdf file, it could not be annotated and bookmarked.

The Diigo website takes time to learn. Some of the features requires you to download a toolbar, while other features allow you to use a tool called a diigolet. You do not have to download a diigolet, you just add the button to your current toolbar. Also, the sharing tool is a little confusing. Once I clicked on a webpage, the window was split. The webpage was on top and comments were on the bottom of the split screen. In addition, if you look at the screen in the annotated view from the shared link, you can see comments of other users if you do not edit that feature.