All my Delicious bookmarks are gone!!
Has Delicious been shut down already. Just signed up on Delicious last year. Thank goodness I didn’t post too many bookmarks on the site. It was part of a class assignment but when I went back to check on them they were gone.
I was going to transfer them onto Diigo since I know that Delicious may not be around too much longer but I guess they are gone forever…? That is my fear with these on-line bookmarking sites. I need to do a bit more research to see if there are ways to save them elsewhere, possibly on your own drive instead of just having them float around in cyber space.
My Own Personal Learning
Well, beyond that…I signed up for a Diigo account and I do like the features on it so far. I wasn’t sure whether you could organize categories by topics but discovered that you can do this by creating your own lists and naming them. I was a bit confused at first on how to add a bookmark to my particular list but realized that I had to install the Diigo Toolbar, then it worked out swimmingly. I created two category lists named ‘Boys Reading’ and ‘Digital Literacy.’ I will definitely add more lists in order to organize my bookmarks further. I find it much easier to locate them when divided this way instead of having this big long list of bookmarks. I had them in one long list on Delicious and did not like this option, maybe I missed something in the organization? The only problem now is going through the thousands of bookmarks I have collected on my computer and adding them here. May be it is best to start fresh and then begin to scan my older, existing bookmarks and bring over the ones are most current and relevant. Thus will be an on-going project that will take a little bit of time.
I also added images and notes to ‘my library,’ which is a neat option. I couldn’t figure out if you can upload images from the Internet though. I must investigate further…I also liked the option of highlighting text and did not realize that it would be placed right below the original bookmark for easier access. I created a sticky note for the highlighted section as well, great for people who have a terrible memory like me, and this is an added bonus for reminding me why this particular site was important or why and how I wanted to use it.
I like the option of including a read later section so that if I cannot get to a site right away I will not forget about it when I include it in my read later section.
I also joined a group; this is always useful in order to follow groups of particular interest to you. I joined the group Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. It linked me to some good information that I will explore further.
Teaching and Learning
For students there would be many ways to use Diigo as an organizational tool.
· I would be able to create lists for my individual classes organizing their bookmarks for class library projects. I could also create subject categories for classes who are working in specific subject areas or particular topics, e.g. ancient civilization, human body, plants, etc.
· Students could organize and collect the various images they needed for a particular project or assignment and log them on the Diigo page until they needed to use them or include them within their work.
· I could highlight specific areas for students so that they new what information was the most useful and also create sticky notes with pertinent information.
· Students could also post notes on the Diigo page that I could respond to and address for further clarification.
· We could also connect to other groups and communities to access web pages that may be beneficial to use; we could share and pool resources this way.
· Tags created also are a great help for students to locate the information that they need and we could review them in order to help them with their searches. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to learn how to search and what to look for. This will help students problem solve and think about vocabulary and how best to find information on specific topics.
Here is my link to my Diigo page: http://www.diigo.com/user/lindadibiase
I look forward to organizing it further and hopefully it will be around for a while.
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