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Using Diigo in the Classroom


Diigo is an excellent social bookmarking tool that enables you to save, annotate, and share bookmarks. There is a special account for K-12 and higher-ed educators that give registered teachers a variety of tools and features. You can create a student Diigo group for your class without the use of student emails. You can also set privacy settings to the group so that only members can see content. Besides using Diigo groups to share with your students websites and content you find on the web, students can also use it for collaboration on research projects, group bookmarks, and annotation.

Here are some ways you can use Diigo group to conduct research in and out of class:

  • Students can search for online content relevant to a research project and bookmark the websites they find and add them to the class group.
  • Students can organize bookmarks by tags and date to aggregate content around a particular topic and make it easier to search for later.
  • Students can highlight specific parts on the bookmarked websites and annotate them for others to read.
  • Students can add comments on their peers' notes, initiate discussion, and edit sticky notes.
  • Students can use a screenshot tool to take screenshots and annotate them with arrows and boxes to use in a tutorial.
  • Students can access their bookmarks and annotations at school, home, or anywhere with internet connection.
Here's a video about how to set up and use Diigo groups:


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  1. LeeJune 25, 2020 at 12:35 PM

    This helps me understand it better, thanks for pointing all this out!

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