Educational+Uses+of+Diigo


 * Educational Uses of Diigo **

** Learner-Centered Activity Using Diigo ** Linda Scott I can envision a creative writing project for groups of four students. Using a writing prompt, this activity would encourage students to research a subject using bookmarks given to them by the instructor as well as their own bookmarks.

For instance, in a creative writing class, the instructor could ask the students to create a four stanza poem together with the rhyme scheme ABAB - ABBA - ACAC - ACCA using the first line of: "on my to grandmother's house," with each student contributing alternating lines until the poem is finished.

For this assignment, the instructor could bookmark two or three poetry sites and ask each student to contribute two or three sites and share them with the other students in their group. The students could then use the sites to answer questions from the instructor such as: What is a stanza? What is a rhyme scheme? Name and describe four different types of poems - with each student naming and describing one type of poem?

Using tools such as highlight, bookmark, and share the students would collaborate and discuss how they want to proceed with the assignment from the beginning until they submit for grading.

** Learning-Centered Activity Using Diigo ** Sherry Wood I am so excited to learn more about Diigo. Every time I open the page something new is there that I can read about. Tommy Gober has some of the best math game I have seen in a long time. I would set up a site were my students would have access to what they are learning in my class. I would also be able to set up information at were they are struggling and need more practice on. This way I could manage what they are doing and be able to give feedback to them as they progress. This would also give them a little freedom to choose what they want to work on at that time. I would be able to target specific areas so the student would not be overwhelmed. I would most likely use math as the target area.

I would also get students to do research project and use bookmarking such as tagging and highlighting. My class recently studied the differences between the brown bear and the polar bears. My students could look up the information and share the sites with the other students. This would be a great asset to any research project.

Tommy Gober The following is an example activity for use with a Texas History Class. It assumes you have already successfully built and are using a classroom wiki to act as a group learning journal (in this case, [|LiveBinders])
 * Texas History Research Project**

Using the bookmark list of sources provided by the teacher at __ diigo.com/user/yourname/texas-history __, your group will research one of the major battles of the Texas War for Independence. At the beginning of the project, your group will draw from the class fishbowl for the name of a battle to research.

Your group will only need to rely on the links provided within the Diigo bookmark library. Good sources have already been located and tagged, so you don’t have to hunt anything down!

From each bookmarked page dealing with your battle, learn more to answer the following questions: • Who were the commanders? • When did the battle take place? • What is the name of the location in which the battle was fought during the battle? What is it called today? What city is this location near? • Who was the winning army? • Who was the loser? • Was there a winner/loser in the battle or a draw? • Was there anything of importance that caused one side to win or lose? • What major event preceded the battle, if any? • What major event was a result of the battle, if any?

Once you find these major pieces of information, create a page for your group on our class Livebinders wiki about the battle. Title your group’s page with the name of your battle. Be sure to include the name of your battle in chronological order on the main page about Texas War for Independence (under the heading “List of Battles and Events”) and link to your page from there. At the top of your battle page, create a heading titled "Authors" and include the names of your group members. Include the answers to the above question in narrative form, similar to a Wikipedia entry. On your battle page, include a link to Google Maps to show where the battle took place. Look on PhotoPin, Wikimedia Commons for any supporting graphics you think might help tell the story. You will need to cite which sources you drew from. Use EasyBib or CitationMachine to help with your citations. List your sources at the bottom of your group’s wiki under the heading “Sources”.

Karri Martin
 * Learner-centered activity Using Diigo**

I would use Diigo for a group of nursing students completing a research project. This would be a great way for all of the students to combine different articles that they have all found. Combing all of these articles into one place would allow great collaboration between the participants. For example, the research topic would examine the effectiveness of different teaching topics for diabetics. One student could educate on a diabetic diet and post the articles on Diigo,one student could research exercise and another student could research oral medications and post their findings on the site. Diigo would allow the students to highlight different parts of papers and add sticky notes where they need to. This would allow everyones thoughts and research to be brought together in one location. This type of collaboration would provide a well though out research project.

=**Learner-centered (Diigo)** = Sabah Ahmad

A learner-centered activity that you can use Diigo tools for is research. Whether it is for grade school, high school, or college, Diigo is great for collecting data, websites, and note taking and placing them in one place and then using tags they can be arranged in an orderly fashion. When using Diigo you can also add others to a group and see what everyone else is reading, posting or taking notes from a certain website. Diigo is a digital notebook in a way that helps you keep track of what others are doing and what you have already placed in your “book”. Diigo is not only a bookmarking website but it is also social, in other words, anyone can comment on your posts or you on someone else. Users leaving messages and feedback help everyone in the process of learning something whether it is about some advancement or some new technology, or even a theory. As for using Diigo in the classroom is no doubt a great way to get students on the same page as well as watching their advancement. Teachers can also keep track of their students, and by creating a group everyone can be posted up to date and collaborate in one place.