Pursuing Diigo

A specific course that might go well with Diigo is history. I think history requires a lot of online researching, and Diigo is the perfect tool. Diigo allows for fast bookmarking, and the seamless home and school access makes it very convenient for students and teachers. As already mentioned in my previous blog, Diigo is extremely useful for group projects. As a group, students can give ideas, bookmark important articles, highlight important facts in an organized manner for the entire group to view. Diigo is very collaborative, in the sense that everyone in the group knows what everyone is doing. This is unlike the traditional way, where each member does their individual parts, and sends it to their group members.
Using Diigo can also generate less paper usage because teachers can bookmark pages instead of giving students individual sheets.
Since Diigo is an excellent tool for bookmarking, we can merge some other webtools together, like xTimeline or GoogleDocs.
I think if all the students know how to handle the tools provided by Diigo well, they can work much more efficiently. First, I suggest an in-class training of Diigo. This training will introduce Diigo, familiarize students how to use it, and so on. Hopefully, this will take just one class. Then, we can have IDC student/s helping students through the Diigo website by joining the class group. In Diigo, there is a topic section, where people can post anything. Categories can also be made in Diigo, so one category can be used to ask for help on the Diigo site. A sheet would probably be given to the teacher giving some additional information, to limit the questions asked by the students. If this idea does get implemented to many classes, it might be overwhelming to go through all those classes, trying to fix problems.