Reading some of the blog posts coming out of the recent ISTE Conference this week, I was reminded again of the bookmarking and research tool, Diigo, which allows you to highlight, annotate and share bookmarks with ease.
In the past I’ve often argued that Delicious is a great bookmark-sharing tool and I’ve used it myself for years, for my personal bookmarks (I don’t save them on the computer so I can access them on any computer anywhere) and for sharing links for special audiences, the readers of The EnglishBook, for example. A bunch of links for them is HERE
But Diigo takes that idea up an extra notch. I’ve used Zotero in the past, and I loved it, but it’s only available with Firefox and I’ve given up Firefox for Chrome and Safari. So, as I prepare for a conference presentation later next term, I’ve begun using Diigo again to gather those ideas and make notes about them. I’ve also been using Google Wave to have a conversation about the conference. But that’s another story!
There are other tools like this too, and a good list of them HERE
Meanwhile, here’s an introduction to Diigo from their web site.
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You know, sometimes the most obvious and simplest things are worth re-stating. Delicous is a bookmark management tool, but those bookmarks are online and can be shared and tagged. I’ve been using it myself since 2004 and I’ve got nearly 2500 pages bookmarked on it. I never keep local bookmarks of favourites any more and when I change computers my links are always there.
But, that’s just a start. I’ve seen several ‘reluctant’ technology teachers turned on to the first idea of web 2.0 by the simplicity of Delicious. You can create an account for a class, or a course or a team of teachers and multiple people can add to the links, which are easily accessed by tags. We began one a couple of years ago when we were writing the EnglishBook so you can take a look at the EnglishBook Delicious Links and see how it works. One nice thing is the logical way the URLS work. The EnglishBook’s Delicious page is http://delicious.com/englishbook but if you want to see the list of tags you just add / and the tag. So all the sites we’ve tagged citizen_kane are at the link: http://delicious.com/englishbook/citizen_kane That link is permanent and can be emailed to a class or cohort.
There are sites now that allow you to bookmark and annotate, and bookmark, annotate and share. But Delicious has a nice simplicity that just works.
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