Social Bookmarking with

What is Bookmarking?

an Internet bookmark acts as a marker for a Web site

What is . .

Social Bookmarking is . . .

a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking )

We are going to learn how to use Diigo. So what is ?

D- IGEST OFI - NTERNETI - NFORMATION, G – ROUPS, AND O - THER STUFF!

is . . .

A free web based resource that allows a user to: Bookmark web sites, Highlight text Add sticky notes with their own comments. Add tags or keywords to their bookmarks Allow other users to add their own sticky

notes and comments. All of this can be done from any device that

can access the internet (computer, laptop, smartphone, iPad, iPod touch, etc.)

Some Features of Diigo: Bookmarking

Bookmark web sites

Create Lists of bookmarks

Add tags or keywords to their to bookmarks

Makes it easy to search and find your bookmarks

Some Features of Diigo: Tags and Keywords

Some Features of Diigo:Highlighting

Highlighting: Diigo allows a

user to highlight a web page just like a yellow highlighter lets you highlight text on a piece of paper or a book.

Some Features of Diigo:Adding Sticky Notes

Taking Notes:With Diigo, you can add notes to a web page just like you can add a note in the margins of an article printed on paper. Also, if others have added sticky notes to a web page, you can see who made those comments and when.

Some Features of Diigo:Sharing

• Allow other users to add their own sticky notes and comments.

• Share lists of bookmarks with other users

• Allow other users to add to your list of bookmarks = collective knowledge

The Best Feature of Diigo is …• All of this can be done from any device

that can access the internet (computer, laptop, smartphone, iPad, iPod touch, etc.)

Diigo – Improving How We Find, Share and Save Information

Some Definitions…

Collaborate: col·lab·o·rate  [kuh-lab-uh-reyt] verb: to

work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/collaborate )

Some Definitions…

Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people

learn or attempt to learn something together. Unlike individual learning, people engaged in collaborative learning capitalize on one another’s resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_learning#Examples_of_Collaborative_Learning

Some Definitions…

Annotate :an·no·tate [an-uh-teyt] verb (used with object) 1. to supply with critical or explanatory notes;  comment upon in notes: For example: to annotate the works of Shakespeare. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/annotate )

Some Definitions…Tags

Tag:

On clothes, tags usually indicate the brand, size of the garment, fabrics used, and the washing instructions. In Web pages, tags indicate what should be displayed on the screen when the page loads. (http://www.techterms.com/definition/tag )

In Social Bookmarking, a tag is a keyword that describes the content of the web page being bookmarked.

Some Definitions…Tags

Tags “help describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.

Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29 )