After reviewing this week's reading materials and the lecture, I have chosen to analyze the use of Diigo in an education setting. One of our building goals for the 14-15 school year is to embed digital citizenship into our curriculum. Through this process, I will be working with our staff to build and present lessons on digital citizenship and I believe Diigo will be a great organization tool to help with this process. My plan is to create a Digital Citizenship Library (or modify my existing one) based on each of the elements of digital citizenship. I will share this library with our staff. The library will contain basic information, links to activities, and links to videos to help teach the content. I plan to evaluate the effectiveness of this tool continually during the implementation process of the lessons through staff feedback. As this will be the first year of this experience, I believe immediate teacher feedback will work best.
In addition to using this tool with our staff, I believe teachers will see value in the tool and demonstrate use to students for a variety of projects and activities. I think Diigo is very user friendly and it is not specific to one device or location, so students can use the tool regardless of what technology they are using as long as they have internet access. I believe this tool will work well for students to organize information when preparing for a research project, report, etc.
The YouTube video below is a short video demonstrating the use of Diigo.
I following link gives an overview of Diigo in the educational setting and its use as a social bookmarking tool.
To create your own Diigo account, go to www.diigo.com.
That's awesome you can share your Diigo folder with your staff, and then maybe your staff will begin to use Diigo, and everyone can share their favorites folders for great website links.
ReplyDeleteI think it is great that the high school plans to embed digital citizenship lessons into the curriculum. Kids can become very careless in the online world and not realize it until it's too late. I hope the students understand the importance of digital citizenship and take it seriously. I think Diigo will be a great way to share resources with the staff. Students could also use it during collaborative work with their peers. I wish I had known about Diigo or a similar tool when I was younger.
ReplyDeleteSince beginning this program, Diigo has been heavily utilized for bookmarking and saving resources we will want later...when we have time to process all of the links and information. :) I really enjoy Diigo and its purposes. It is a site I have recommended to my students when working on research projects, and I think your idea about creating a digital citizenship library for next year will be really helpful (after everyone learns how to use the tool)!
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