Power of Diigo

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1	Timestamp	Name	Location	District or School Setting	How is Diigo Powerful for Instructional and Leadership Development?	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Link to your Diigo Bookmarks

2		Don Lourcey	Statesville, NC	North Carolina Virtual School	I use Diigo pretty frequently primarily as a means to build and engage in a Professional Learning Community. I belong to several groups and through those groups I can follow the resources and links of various leaders. I have created a few groups for the people I work with throughout the state. I use Diigo with our staff to post key articles and latest research on blended learning, online education, reform efforts, and online instructional best practices. I have also created a group for several districts as we have studied Curtis Bonk's The World is Open and the sources we have collected primarily focus on the chapter content for each of his 10 Openers in Education. Great resources for building a community through shared resources.	Classroom 2.0	Diigo in Education	EdTech Talk	http://www.diigo.com/user/dlourcey
3	4/29/2011 14:46:41	Nicole Lakusta	Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada	Parkland School Division	With so much information available online, F2F and through blogs and twitter, it's important to be able to sift and share this with people WHEN they are ready and WHEN it's asked for (such as during instructional coaching discussions). I love being able to bookmark and go back to it later!	Classroom 2.0 Live	Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative	Special education technology integration	http://www.diigo.com/user/Nlakusta
4		Tom Moncrief	Monroe, NC	Research, Development and Innovation Specialist (World Languages and Arts Education)	Like many other Web 2.0 applications, Diigo provides a mechanism for a repository of collective research. 21st century Professional Learning is not always about a 1.0 CEU course, but rather a collaboration of learning and learners. When one thinks of collaboration and giving a definition to it, there is a Latin work inside "Labor". Diigo provides the opportunity for the "Labor" of the professional exchange to be on a consistent platform. The Group Tag dictionary is a powerful (and unique to Diigo) tool that allows communities to have a common tagging language.
5		Steven Anderson	Winston Salem, NC	District Instructional Technologist, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools	Diigo is my tool of choice for gathering, organizing and storing web content. I have Diigo bookmarklets and toolbars install on all my machines and teach my teachers how to do the same. Instead of having a list of Favorites that lives on one machine or one network, Diigo allows me to take my web content anywhere in the world I have an internet connection. But it also allows me to tag and file my content so I can find it easier. I can't begin to remember all approx 2500 saves I have but I can remember the tags I use to narrow my search. But more than that if the user is an educator they can get free educator account that allows them to create log ins for students, organize groups of saves and push them out for projects and learning. And the students can share their saves with each other, all in the safety of the system. I also like using Diigo to search when beginning researching a topic because I find it is sometimes easier to cancel out the noise that I often find on Google.	Educators	Discovery Educators Network	Teaching with Technology	http://diigo.com/user/stevenanderson
6		Kyle Wood	Gastonia, NC	Instructional Technology Facilitator, Gaston County Schools and Online CTE Teacher, NCVPS	We are slowly adopting Diigo as part of our set of tools for our PLN. It is very small right now, but our main purpose has been to aggregate resources each of us find for the group as opposed to its individual use. I prefer the Diigolet myself, but I really love how I can bookmark something for myself and immediately see a dropdown menu to select any groups to which I belong and want to share. We monitor what comes in and tag it very specifically because we distribute certain tags to feed readers within groups on our Ning, so that lurking non-users can still access the specific resources that might interest them without having to learn Diigo and all of the searching techniques.	Classroom 2.0	Educators	Discovery Educators Network	http://diigo.com/user/gastondigital
7		Michael Walker	Edina, MN	Secondary Technology Integration Specialist	I have been using Diigo since I first saw it in the spring of 2008, and really like it. I have created groups for the Communities of Practice I facilitate, and also use the send e-mail feature for sharing links with leaders in my district. I also mine the e-mailed group links each week for items I'm interested in.	Educators	Discovery Educators Network	Teaching with Tablets	http://www.diigo.com/user/micwalker?tab=3
8		Doreen Laskiewicz	Millstone, NJ	Music Teacher, PD Committee Chair	I'm just starting to gather sites as resources for district PD. I use Diigo so I can assess these sources in different places. Work, home, phone, iPod, etc. I hope to continue to use it to also share with my fellow teachers to help them along in their tech integration journey.				http://www.diigo.com/user/doemiso
9		Jason Schmidt	Omaha, Nebraska	3-4 teacher in Lutheran elementary school, SMART certified trainer	The ability to access my bookmarks, annotations, and notes from anywhere makes Diigo my tool of choice. I find it a really easy tool to use to filter the information that I constantly get from my Twitter stream into manageable chunks. I also find Diigo as a great way to find instructional materials. When I am looking for something specific in my instruction, I start with Diigo (and Delicious) before I head to Google. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I find what I am looking for in Diigo. The groups function is also great for gaining access to new resources. It is also very helpful to me in trainings that I conduct because sharing is really easy. Even if participants don't use Diigo, they still can access my lists.	Diigo in Education	Interactive White Boards in the Classroom	Lutheran Teachers	http://www.diigo.com/user/jasonschmidt123
10		Leslie Noggle	Gastonia, North Carolina	Instructional Technology Facilitator for Gaston County Schools, Adjunct CIT Instructor at Cleveland Community College	Personally, I have been using Diigo for a little over a year and I love how easy it is to Bookmark sites and create lists. I love that right from whatever web page I am on, I can see if the groups I follow have already bookmarked it and what comments have been made or share it with followers myself. I think what makes it so powerful is the ability to create both groups and lists. It is great to be able to to share sites with relevant information to certain groups the sites to pertain to or to share lists with people who need information but don't have Diigo.	Classroom 2.0	Clif's Notes on EdTech	Teaching with Technology	http://www.diigo.com/user/lnoggle
11		Beth Case	Lubbock, TX	Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology	I like seeing what other people have discovered and recommend. It saves me the time and hassle of searching and evaluating on my own. There are millions of sites and resources out there, how do you find the good ones? I see which ones have been saved the most on Diigo. Also, we have used Diigo in class to share bookmarks related to the class with fellow students.	Classroom 2.0	Digital Storytelling		http://www.diigo.com/user/delizabeth
12		Patrick Black	Mt. Prospect, IL	Special education teacher for students with significant cognitive disabilities	I love finding and sharing links with colleagues and co-workers. The sites that are shared are topical and very appropriate for many levels of students. Having the opportunity to customize what groups I belong too, makes it a very useful too for many other teachers too. It also is a great way to share lots of information with parents and others. Having a list function just makes it easy. It easy to use and powerful!	AT in SPED	Diigo in Education	Sp ed. in the 21st Century	http://www.diigo.com/user/teachntech
13		Hindie Becker Dershowitz	Katy, TX	Co-ordinator for Assistive Technology	I like the ability to save links into libraries that I can share with other staff and parents. I like the ability to go onto any computer in the district and pull up my bookmarks to show. I belong to several Diigo groups that I share bookmarks with.	AT in SPED	Web 2.0 Tools for teachers	district group	http://www.diigo.com/user/hindie
14		Tero Toivanen	Espoo, Finland	Special Education Teacher for students with autism spectrum diagnosis, Doctoral Student	Diigo is one of the most important tools I use for self-study. I use it also in my teaching. I can find the important resources anywhere I have access to Internet.	Classroom 2.0	Autism teachers	Sosiaalinen media opetuksessa	http://www.diigo.com/user/teromakotero
15		Justin K. Reeve	Ogden, UT	Web Manager, Weber School District	Diigo is easily in my top 5 lists of useful educational tools. It's a great resource sharing tool. I'd love to see more of our teachers using it. I seldom even use native browser bookmarking anymore, because the ability to access your bookmarks from anywhere is so invaluable, and it's easy to search your bookmarks through the tags you select. The ability to share bookmarks with others makes Diigo an important part of my Personal Learning Network.	Cool Tools & Ed Tech	Twitter Freaks	Resources for Languages	http://www.diigo.com/user/justinreeve
16		Herman A. Hall IV	Kill Devil Hills, NC	Spanish Language Educator	It's a great platform for literacy development in both Spanish and English. PostIng guided reading questions to webpages with relative and interactive content makes for great cultural awareness and literacy building tools. Plus you can reuse the materials once developed and they are cloud-based making easy access and deployment.
17		Marisa Pavan	Rosario, Argentina	CILEL School of English	It's a great platform to form groups and exchange valuable links
18		Yoon Soo Lim	Philadelphia, PA	PreK-8 Music Dept. Chair	I like Diigo over Delicious for these reasons: The interface is simpler and cleaner. I can create class accounts w/o email address and guide my students' research or check their research progress. Diigo highlighters help me remember what I liked reading in an article. I like it even more that when I bookmark it, it saves the highlighted portion as a quote. I like using the sticky note so that I can post notes or have students post notes on articles. I also like following groups of teachers who share resources.	Teaching Music	musictechieteachers	Wissahickon eToolBox	http://www.diigo.com/user/yoonslim
19		Alex Rosenwald	Freehold, NJ	HS Chemistry/Physics, Technology Facilitator	Even though I'm a novice to Diigo, I've found it to be the most powerful means of disseminating resources that I get through my budding PLN to my colleagues. I like the annotation/highlighting aspect and it allows me to focus on key points. I'm still processing how I can use it for instructional purposes, but I foresee my use of it to increase the more comfortable I get with it.				http://www.diigo.com/user/arosey
20		Christopher Lister	Chilliwack, B.C. Canada	Elementary school teacher 4-7	Well, I use Diigo with my PLN to share links, resources, and articles. I don't often know what my PLN are reading but this tool I can. I also use it as a personal resource using the search option, as well as connecting with other education professionals. When using Diigo I particularly like the sticky note and highlighter options when researching.	Teaching and learning with web2.0	classroom 2.0	it's elementary	http://www.diigo.com/user/Mr_Lister
21		Barbara Moose	Salisbury, NC	Elementary Instructional Technology Facilitator/Specialist 2010 NCTIES Conference Chair 2010-2011 President NCTIES (NC Tech in Ed Society, ISTE Affiliate)	Clif Mims introduced me to Diigo and it quickly became my favorite way to keep and share bookmarks as I migrated my bookmarks from delicious (although my Diigo setting automatically post to delicious, too). Diigo has helped me grow myy PLN and had provided so many quality contacts and resources through its groups. I am impressed by Diigo's versatility, but I must admit that I don't use it to it's full capability. I have a closed group for teachers in my school and am working to help them learn to utilize it.	Clif's Notes on EdTech	NC EdTech	Cool Tools & Ed Tech	http://www.diigo.com/user/bmoose
22		Nicole Lakusta	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	Educational Technology Facilitator Parkland School Division#70	Using Diigo for bookmarks from my PLN and Netvibes blogs. Also follow and have started many Diigo groups for admin and teachers in the district.	AT in SpEd	Ted Talks	iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Users Group	http://groups.diigo.com/user/nlakusta
23		Dean Mantz	Sterling, Kansas	Network Coordinator/Technology Integration Specialist. I also teach a Technology in the Classroom course for local college	I started using Diigo summer of 2009. I too have used it as my predominate bookmarking site after importing from local machine and Delicious. Maggie & Diigo team are very good at listening to their users and especially educators. When I have had issues after providing PD on Diigo, Maggie would personally communicate with me until issue was resolved. I strongly suggest you use the toolbar in Firefox since it provides additional features not included in the Diigolet for Chrome & Safari. Really like how you can have bookmarks sent to Delicious as a backup along with saving your "Favorite Tweets" or even taking screen shots via their capture mode feature.	Sterling College	Educators	Discovery Educator Network	http://www.diigo.com/user/dmantz7
24		Beth Swantz	Kalona, Iowa	MS/HS Librarian in one district, technology coordinator in another	I started using Diigo after my laptop crashed and I lost all my bookmarks. Moving between buildings and districts this tool has been a life-saver! I learn TONS from the groups I follow on Diigo. I forward tools and suggested sites to the appropriate people in my buildings. I also use my own diigo lists to organize and catagorize before sharing. It's an amazing tool!!	Iowa Core; web 2.0; classroom 2.0	Teacher-Librarians; educators; Diigo in Education;	cool tools & Ed Tech;	http://www.diigo.com/user/kebets
25		Nico Wlock	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Creative Director, Designer, Social Media Instructor	Diigo allows me to import specific and relevant bookmarks during my workshop presentations to support my slides. I also use it to organise and share my links with other creatives.				http://www.diigo.com/user/inc0gnico
26		Vijay Kantavil	Perth, WA	University Graduate	I used it as part of my course during my degree, today I simply use it as a personal bookmarking tool	Diigo Community	UNSWNETLIT		http://www.diigo.com/user/v5point0
27		Paul McKean	Rochdale, UK	Bolton College	I use Diigo to share bookmarks with my PLN. I often Tweet links to specific searches within my Diigo for example "iPad apps", depending on the topics which are being discussed. I also use Diigo as a more personal bookmarking tool, ensuring that I include as many metatags as are relevant, often tagging bookmarks with 10 plus tags. This certainly helps in the long run as the bookmarks are much easier to find again.	Diigo in Education			http://www.diigo.com/user/moodlemckean
28		Jan Anderson	Rumbai, Indonesia	International Schools Riau	I use Diigo to share my favorite sites, but the best thing about Diigo is getting the daily updates from my "Diigo In Education" group. Every day I learn something new and valuable that I can use in my teaching or share with other teachers!	Diigo in Education
29		Siri Anderson	Bemidji, MN	Bemidji State University	I create Diigo groups for each online class that I teach so students will have access to our resources in perpetuity. I work in teacher education so I am excited to be teaching new teachers the value of this organizational tool. I also use Diigo as a volunteer activity -- I embed Diigo widgets in public classroom teachers web pages and then I tag my finds in a way that they will land on their pages. This keeps their families up to date with new resources to explore for appropriate grade level content. I love my Diigo!	Diigo in Education	CliffNotes on EdTech	Web2.0 at School	http://www.diigo.com/profile/sirisensei
30		Aly Amaral Roy	Hopkinton, MA	MS/HS Technology Integration Coordinator	I really enjoy using Diigo to organize and access all my Internet resources. This past fall we had our entire freshman class set up Diigo accounts to use throughout their high school career.	Classroom 2.0	Google in Education	Discovery Educator Network	http://www.diigo.com/user/Aamaralroy
31		Randolph Hollingsworth	Lexington, KY	University of Kentucky	This was a terrific tool for my undergraduate history students working on their projects in an open educational resource on the history of KY women in the civil rights era (www.kywcrh.org) - it helped them get going with the interrelationships needed to ascertain whether a source is credible or not... but since they were new to the idea of peer review on annotated bibliographies (usually this sort of work is turned in and not much of their work is discussed by their classmates), I'm not sure they were particularly helpful all the time for each other's entries. Would love to hear how other instructors got a more rigorous peer review culture going!	Diigo in Education			http://groups.diigo.com/group/kywcrh
32		Rob Weston	Oxfordshire, England	King Alfred's College	I use Diigo to do my research for me! I am doing a Masters in Education and there is so much information that I can't even keep up with it, it's great!	Diigo in Education
33		Matt Esterman	Sydney, Australia	Brigidine College, St Ives	We have used Diigo as a staff to collate links that we find and share them with each other quickly and easily (BCSI-History etc.) In the classroom, despite initial apprehension from students, using Diigo for research in History and English is a breeze and reduces time-wasting, mindless browsing on general search engines. I have also used Diigo for my own postgraduate studies.	Diigo in Education	Literacy with ICT	Classroom 2.0	http://www.diigo.com/user/misterhistory
34		Gayle Cole	Los Angeles, California, USA	The Center for Early Education	Students use Diigo when conducting research. Teachers use Diigo to find resources.	Diigo in Education
35		Jenifer Marquis	Rocky Mount, North Carolina	Edgecombe County Public Schools	Our Technology Facilitators have set up a group. We share resources that we find on the Internet in Diigo using key words. The Technology Facilitators then share these links with their teachers and often it then reaches down to the students.	Technology Facilitators	Cool Tools & Ed Tech	Discovery Educator Network	http://www.diigo.com/user/jenifermarquis
36		Glynda Pflieger	Boise, Idaho	School Library Consultant for the Idaho Commission for Libraries	I use Diigo as part of my personal learning network (PLN) to share web resources. I highlight information to share and make notes for myself. I organize my resources into list and share with groups.	Diigo in Education	Literacy with ICT, Social Network Learning	EDTECH at Boise State University, Idaho School Libraries	http://www.diigo.com/user/gpflieger
37		Gerald Carey	Adelaide, Australia	Professional Learning Coordinator	I have have found the Diigo updates an incredible source of new information and ideas. It is rare, in the daily updates I get from the Diigo in Education group, that I don't get at least one new idea or resource that I haven't seen before. As the PLC at my school, that also means that I can pass on other ideas to teachers at the school. My next step is to get them to join...	Diigo in Education	Biology Teacher	Brain Hacking	http://groups.diigo.com/user/gcarey
38		Francesc Redondo	Barcelona Spain	Elementary school teacher. Instructional Technology Facilitator.	I use Diigo to share my favorite sites, as a part of my PLN. Every day I learn new resouces to use in my classrrom or in courses with other teachers.	Picasa in Education	Google in Education	Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom	http://www.diigo.com/user/fredondo
39				Instructional Technology Facilitator, Independent school	I use Diigo for myself, for my family, and for my students. I share research in the courses I take, I share links with teachers, and I share articles with students who are researchers.	Diigo in Education			http://www.diigo.com/profile/ghkcole
40		Daryl Bambic	Montreal, QC, Canada	Teacher, ICT Facilitator	Diigo is my go to tool (after Google Docs) for almost everything. I have learned more with my Diigo account than I ever have in a university course. I am the Diigo evangelist in my school. My students love it too. I share my gems from Diigo with the teachers and create groups for each one of my classes. Students bookmark their favorites and we post our links on the class wiki.	Professional Development	wicpsycho	philosophyforteens	http://www.diigo.com/user/dabambic
41		Sydnye Cohen	Brookfield, CT	Library Media Specialist	I teach Diigo to student researchers who are in the beginning stages of their research as they gather articles to support their thesis. I use it for my personal and school resources. I subscribe to a few Diigo weekly updates, always a good source of information. My students are enthusiastic users.
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