I am the Assistant Director of the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University. In my role at NIU I am responsible for developing and offering programs and support for faculty and staff on teaching with technology and related topics, providing leadership on technology-related issues, and performing supervisory functions at the Center. With over a decade of experience in the field of online learning, I work closely with various units at NIU on addressing faculty needs related to online teaching.
I develop and provide training programs on web-course management systems as well as a variety of other topics related to online teaching and learning at Northern Illinois University. In addition, I also serve as an instructional designer, online course developer, and adjunct faculty for Valley Forge Christian College and adjunct faculty for Concordia University Chicago, Seattle Pacific University, University of Illinois, and the Illinois Online Network.
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Social Bookmarking 2.0: Research, Share and Collaborate Online Using Diigo
Do you struggle to keep track of all your favorite Web sites and other online resources? Would you like to share the links to your favorite online resources with your colleagues or students? Using Diigo, you can both easily bookmark your favorite online resources in the cloud and annotate, share, and collaborate in new ways! This hands-on session will introduce the Diigo collaborative research tool and explore several practical applications for implementing collaborative resource sharing in the classroom.
Session tag: fsi2010diigo
Session short URL: tiny.cc/fsi2010diigo
Session resource list: tiny.cc/fsi2010list
Session sandbox Diigo group: tiny.cc/fsi2010group
Session archive: vimeo.com/11910495
Session Objectives:
- Explain the value and rationale for social bookmarking
- Create personal social bookmarking account on Diigo
- Begin bookmarking online resources
- Join “Faculty Summer Institute 2010” group on Diigo
- Join “FSI 2010 Diigo” sandbox group on Diigo and begin sharing, annotating, and collaborating using Diigo
- Join “Diigo in Education” group on Diigo
- Create list and group
- Discuss educational uses for social bookmarking
Rationale:
Background and Definitions:
- Social Bookmarking in Plain English [YouTube]
- 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
- Diigo: Improving how we find, share, and save information [YouTube]
- Diigo in the Classroom [YouTube]
- Diigo Educator Accounts
- RSS in Plain English
- RSS is like a funnel: diagram
Examples:
- Jason’s Diigo bookmarks
- Jason’s Delicious bookmarks
- Faculty Summer Institute 2010 Diigo group
- FSI 2010 sandbox Diigo group
- Diigo in Education group on Diigo
- Diigo in Education - group items tagged diigo
- Diigo bookmarks tagged with conference tag “FSI2010”
- Diigo group for FSI2010
- Diigo list of course resources - Social Networking for Online Learning
- Jason’s CiteULike library
Video Tutorials:
- Diigo: Research ~ annotate, archive, organize
- Diigo: Sharing ~ build a personal learning network
- Diigo: Collaborate ~ create a group knowledge repository
Benefits to Social Bookmarking:
- Access your online favorites from any internet connection
- Syndication + Aggregation
- Share favorites with other “friends” in your network while keeping selected favorites private
- See popularity of a resource
- Manage volume of favorites
- Archive of favorites in “the cloud” for safekeeping
- Share dynamic lists of resources by tag
Why Diigo?
- Share links, annotations, and collaborate in public or private groups
- Create lists to organize and categorize resources
- Highlight and annotate any web page while researching to add to your collection of online resources
- Ability to import existing browser favorites and bookmarks from other social bookmarking services like Delicious
- Any Diigo bookmarks can be simultaneously bookmarked in an existing Delicious account
Steps to Getting Started:
- Sign-up for free account
- Install Diigo toolbar
- Bookmark online favorites
- Add other users to your network
- Add categories for users to easily filter shared resources
- Join existing groups
- Share links with your groups
- Request an educator account
- Create a private list for each class to organize bookmarks
- Create a private group for each class
- Select a tag for each class (course number recommended, such as: edt6030, sn1021) and ask students to use as one of the tags they use when bookmarking resources related to the course
- Have students share course-related bookmarked resources with the class group on Diigo
Approaches:
- Different individuals bookmarking the same online resource using different tags
- Multiple individuals using shared tags to bookmark online resources
- Using tags as an index for bookmarked pages
Uses:
- Academic resource sharing
- Literature reviews source archives
- Group projects and activities
- Web quests
Recommendations for Existing Delicious Users:
- Export your Delicious bookmarks and then import into your Diigo account
- Maintain your Delicious account by enabling your Diigo account to automatically post your Diigo bookmarks to Delicious
Cite this session/handout as:
Rhode, J. F. (2010, May 19). Social Bookmarking 2.0: Research, Share and Collaborate Online Using Diigo. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
