Community reviews for Diigo

I think it is a great tool to help students pick out main ideas and make notes on the things they highlight. The one thing that can be frustrating is that if one student highlights something another student can not highlight over top of what another student said. I think the document gets messy with all the highlighting that occurs. I overall really enjoy using this app.

this product teaches students the importance of annotating and how it can get you to engage more with reading material. something that I dislike is that students can not highlight a sentence if someone already has, but they can comment on someone else's highlight.

Diigo is a great tool, and I use it myself for most of my own 'bookmarking' activities. I say 'bookmarking' because diigo really pushed the boundary of traditional bookmarking. They added: 1. sharing to specific groups (like classes) 2. annotation of webpages 3. search functionality within your bookmarks when you do a google search (if you enable it) They also made it incredible teacher friendly. Teachers can: 1. create student accounts quickly and easily in batches 2. control rights and log on credentials (because students NEVER forget passwords, right?) It's actually the best bookmarking/curation tool I have found in terms of functionality, but I find flipboard (which I reviewed here: /app/flipboard-your-social-news-magazine-teacher-review/4067671) to be more appealing and engaging to students because of the visual magazine format.

Diigo used to be my favorite go-to social bookmarking site for any and all research that my students conduct. Diigo even publishes bibliographical information for you, too. As of December 2014, however, Diigo was purchased by an overseas company that is quickly monetizing the site, limited free services and actually taking away previously useful features. If you want to have all of the features that you were used to, then you have to pay.Because of this event I now suggest using Annotary, a brilliant alternative that is more graphically attractive and user-friendly.

Even though the students did not enjoy using Diigo.com to annotate the text, they need to become comfortable marking the text online due to the requirements of the new online testing (i.e. Smarter Balance). I really enjoyed how they got to practice this skill! I also enjoyed how it saved all of the sites they randomly looked up, into one neat folder. Overall, I would recommend this app, just keep in mind that it will take longer for students to research this way, rather than by hand.

I really like the idea of having a collective resource that a whole school can use. We all use great websites and resources each day that would be helpful for other teachers and students, too. We also have had that moment where we couldn't recall a website's specific address that we would like to use, and time is of the essence. Something I would like Diigo to add is a webpage thumbnail preview that would show up. Sometimes we know it when we see it.

I share articles with my students, they read, highlight, look for word meanings, comment on it, etc. I share great resources with my colleagues as well. It is a great way to use it as a personal learning network as well because you can join groups, and communities of your interest as well.

Overall, I really like Diigo. It is a safe site to use with students, as all activity can be kept private, is contained within the community that you establish, and you can monitor all student activity. I love that students can easily bookmark and share among themselves websites, images, and video. They are able to collaborate in school or at home and they have eagerly done both. My students and I have really enjoyed Diigo.

I think Diigo is a great way to have students and teachers contribute to finding resources for any topic or project. It is also a great way to keep access to those resources long after the project is over. Now that we are able to share documents in the cloud it only makes sense that we have access to our bookmarks and favorite links in the cloud too. And it is a great way to have students share resources with us as teachers, just as we do with them.

The pure number of sources of information on the web can be overwhelming for students. They sometimes only focus on the top 2-3 sites in their web searches -- not too mention some students lack the skills to use their search engine effectively. With Diigo I am able to easily bookmark sites that I would like students to visit. I can add highlights and comments to help focus their attention on a particular section of a webpage. I really like the ability to install the Diigo browser extension because I often come across the best resources for students when I am not actually searching for them. I know their are other services that offer some of the same features, but Diigo is the one I choose to use because it is easy to use and it gets the job done.