Diigo sounds pretty cool, and a great way for managing internet information! To be honest, at this point it is a little bit overwhelming, but only because we have been learning about so many great tools, that it is hard to think about how to use them all! :D
Five Fab Ways to use Diigo
- The most obvious way is to teach kids how to use diigo when researching. I imagine that kids could use Diigo as their research tool, and then create another final product, whether that is a paper in Google Docs or a Prezi. I didn't actually sign up for Diigo, but I wonder if there is a way to manage all the sticky notes... they could substitute for "old school" notecards. That would be cool! :)
- Library promotion: what a great way to highlight information that would benefit all the teachers in school. Articles about new tech, great teaching practices, library functions and many other things could be included in, or become the Library newsletter!
- Diigo would be a phenomenal way to teach kids to interact with informational text! I imagine that you could do some great collaboration with science, english and history!
- Think-Aloud: one technique for teaching reading is to model what you are doing as an interactive reader. The act of reading is very invisible, and struggling readers often don't realize how they are supposed to interact with the text. Diigo is a great tool to "model" a think-aloud for the students.
- BOOK CLUBS! Now, I am not sure about all the logistics, but wouldn't it be great to have an online book club that could make interactive comments with the text as they were reading along! That would be REALLY interesting... readers always react in different ways to different parts of the text!
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