Diigo provides my 8th grade students with a viable means to assemble a collection of websites on their research topics.

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.