This semester I had the opportunity to learn more about Diigo, which is a social bookmarking tool. I was immediately fascinated by the options that Diigo offers. For example, I always wanted to highlight things I read online. Diigo offers that! I wanted to be able to add little comments to things I read online. Diigo has sticky notes that you can add to pages. I often read something amazing online, but when I later try to retrace my steps to find it I am not able to. Diigo solves this too! Diigo has options for bookmarking pages, sorting them by tags, bookmark searching options, etc. Diigo even lets you create groups and then you can share what you find among your groups. Diigo has some amazing options for connecting to other people and seeing what they are studying and keeping track of your own research. Diigo is free to sign up for and it has so many options for how you can use it to your benefit. It is free to sign up at Diigo.com.
After teaching Jeff, one of my classmates, about Diigo, I had an opportunity to apply it in another one of my classes. We have a group assignment where we all have to read these articles and then right a paper together about them. I saw this as a great chance to apply what I had learned, so I taught the members of my group about Diigo and we started a group.
Even though Diigo is a highly modern tool, it also closely relates to what we have been talking about in our Digital Civilizations class. In the 15th century, the printing press enabled the printed word to be spread rapidly among the people. The printing press made possible learning and understanding that had previously been unavailable. Diigo is a different kind of printing press, but it is accomplishing some of the same things. Diigo makes it so that people can expand their learning and understanding by seeing what others are studying and what they are thinking about it. Diigo is a great tool and it provides so many opportunities for us to expand our views and knowledge.
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