Diigo
June 22, 2008
What is it? What does it do?
Diigo is a free, interactive, web-based method of highlighting and taking notes. It allows you to highlight passages within an on-line text, to post “sticky notes” to a page with your own comments, and to share your findings with your “friends” on Diigo. These notes and comments are saved for you on Diigo, so whenever you access that text, your notes and highlights return.
What are the infrastructure and technical requirements for this tool?
System requirements:
Windows XP/2000 SP4+, Red Hat Linux 9.0+, Mac OS X 10.2+
How can you use it effectively in instruction?
As my intermediate students complete the research project we assign, this will be a terrific way for them to match note-taking skills with technology skills. However, it will be vital that we first discuss “copying” versus “note-taking” so that they don’t learn to rely on highlighting as their primary method of taking notes for their paper.
What are other education applications for this tool?
We complete a research report with note-taking project in class so that students are prepared for the research report required in their STEM (Science) Fair project. Every one of our students has to complete this assignment, so they will be able to apply the on-line note-taking skills at home.
What are the limitations and cautions related to use of this tool?
It takes practice to learn how to read the information and then go back to highlight what is important. Each user also needs to set up an account on Diigo, which each student will need. Finally, it takes practice learning how to use Diigo, which will also take time.
What are the management considerations for this tool?
· time to set up accounts
· time to teach students how to use the website
· time to teach students how to take notes
· instruction on the difference between taking notes that are then put into your own words and highlighting / copying words that should not be just put into your text as if they were your own words (which is necessary regardless of the form of note-taking)
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mrigopoulos | June 23, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I believe that once students are taught the difference between highlighting words and copying words this would be a good tool to use for research. Students in the intermediate grades at Oliver Beach could use this for a variety of research projects. The highlighting will make words stand out. Couldn’t this also be used for studying?