My 3 Social Bookmarking Hats

 My Teaching:
-research - grade 8 Body Systems
-private group creation (class/subject/teachers)
-collaboration and sharing of links
-in lieu of "can I email this to myself?"
-critical thinking re: creation of tags and selection of links
-writing annotations
-selection of text for highlighting
-bookmark appropriate sites for student pathfinders
-Student learning communities
-opportunities to connect to other researchers

My Learning:
-research for all graduate courses
-sharing links with colleagues and group members
-daily updates = instant PD!
-life long learning
-"cloud" access to all links
-extend my PLN to teacher librarians, teachers and others interested in Web 2.0 
-access far more on the internet through groups and those I follow
-subscribe to groups for updates, annotations and bookmarks


Personal:
-use a private Diigo group to save bookmarks presently residing in my favourites on each computer I use
-tagging is changing the way I work with Web 2.0
-connect with like-minded educators and teacher librarians
-expand my use of the internet to personal interests: storytelling and watercolour painting

Diigo: Fifth of 6 Web 2.0 tools

Diigo.com is an online social bookmarking tool for web image and document highlighting, book marking, annotating and sharing with a group.  As a learner in the Master of Education (TLDL) program focussing on the use of online sources I needed to go beyond adding bookmarks to my favourites in the browser. Earlier this year I began to use Diigo on the recommendation of my instructors and have subscribed to a few Diigo groups and receive emailed daily updates of pages bookmarked by other users. “By joining groups of like minded users, you are automatically able to access all of the bookmarks that other members of the group have chosen to save”.(Brisbane catholic education information and resourcing centre, 2011) The quality of these bookmarks makes Diigo a valuable addition to my personal learning network. At this time I bookmark and share sites through email using Diigo but have not used other features. I am intrigued by the use of tags and would like to become more active in collaborating with my groups. Reynolds ( 2010) predicts “We will watch as the cloud expands and frees users not only from the tether of their local hard drives, but also from other boundaries that have separated them from content and other users”. (para. 8)  Using Diigo to highlight and sticky note would help me manage online reading and research without the fear of lost access. I will demonstrate my use of tags, highlighting and sticky notes by including a Diigo page in my blog. I will include a list of my tags, my Diigo groups and some of the comments I have contributed and shared.