Welcome to Diigo!
www.diigo.com
Your learning, simplified
Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows users to sign up and share bookmarked pages. It makes for better reading as users are able to highlight any part of a webpage and apply sticky notess. Users can sign up for free and also purchase upgrades. Diigo is a powerful collaboration tool that can be utilized by all ages and all professions.
Website Functions
Collect
Users are able to save and tag their online resources from anywhere at any time.
Organize
Organize links, references and personal input to create a structured research base through Outliner
Share
Share your bookmarks and research with friends, family, classmates and colleagues.
Instructional Application
Diigo is quick and easy to use. After signing up and activating your account, users must download the Diigo web extension to their browsers in order to enable full functionality. Once the browser extension is installed, users are now able to visit different websites to annotate and bookmark.
Diigo: Step by Step
Step 1: Sign Up and choose a plan
Step 2: Download browser extension
Step 3: Bookmark and annotate
Step 4: Organize your findings
Step 5: Share with others
Done!
Pros
- Free and user friendly
- Bookmark, annotate, highlight and capture from everywhere
- Share with others through social media or email
- Easy to organize
- Powerful collaboration tool
- Benefits student research
Cons
- Users must purchase upgrades
- Various buttons and functions may take time to get used to
- Relies on users to provide summaries, relevant tags and highlights
Watch this tutorial to learn more...
Education tutorial: Exploring social bookmarking with Diigo | lynda.com