When life is feeling crazy, you often don't take the time to utilize technology to its full potential. I recently did a little searching into the bookmarking site Diigo, and there are several features to this site that I was not fully utilizing. It's great to know what I've been missing out on, and its a reminder to me that there is usually more to such a tool than meets the eye. I like having the Diigo toolbar, because it provides quick options for marking and highlighting my research and saving it for later or for collaboration with other teachers and colleagues.
Here is a review of some features I didn't know about until recently:
1) You can "Send to Blog" something cool that you read or is relevant to a conversation with colleagues very easily. Therefore, your annotations from web browsing can be converted directly to blog posts! Pretty cool if you are trying to build up your blog (should have been me! :)
2) When you are really digging (no pun intended, wow that's a total JHeil moment :) into a web page, you can simply forward the entire page with your sticky notes and highlights to the person you are collaborating with, and they in turn can write their own comments under your sticky notes!
3) You can also forward multiple bookmarks with highlights and notes from a particular subject. This would have been helpful when we were making our ITU in the day cohort!
4) "Enhanced Linkrolls" ... you can make a collaborative platform on your blog or website where collaborators can simply place all of their findings and thoughts on a topic!
5) You can syndicate your tagroll, or list of bookmarks to another blog or website easily with an RSS, linkroll or "tagcloud"
To start working with Diigo, or take their own guided tour you can go to this link: (:
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