Diigo Basics

Diigo’s opening page looks like this:

Join Diigo

Fill out your account information. Hit Continue. After you have an account, you can click on the Free Education Edition Upgrade.

After you hit Continue, this is the screen you will get asking you to confirm your account via your email.

Educator Upgrade

It will ask you to sign in with the account information you created.

Advantages of Educator Account

Diigo is a great enabler for active reading, project-based learning, and better collaboration, particularly with respect to:• how students and teachers acquire, research and organize

information• how students can engage in active and critical reading online• how teachers and students can engage each other

collaboratively in reading, researching, interpreting, and critiquing information

• how students can work effectively as a team, in project-based learning, that requires the team to acquire, analyze and synthesize information from a variety of resources

Download the Toolbar

Step 1 is to get the toolbar on your computer.

To do this later, or on another computer, go to TOOLS / Diigo Toolbar.

Once the toolbar is installed a blue Box with a “d” will appear & stay on your computer.(Note: it may also appear inside the “Other Bookmarks” toolbar across the top.)

Create Groups

Click on the “My Groups” tab at the top of the page. Then click “Create a new group” button on the right.

Fill out the form and click “Create my group” at the bottom when you are done.

Create Lists

Click on the “Diigo” drop down bar in the Diigo toolbar. Go to the “My Lists” sidebar, and click “Create a List..”

After clicking on “Create a list,” you will get this window. Title your list and then click “OK.”

As you get entries collected, the option to create Lists will also appear in My Library.

Search Sites/Explore Diigo Sites

Hit the community tab to view trending bookmarks--educational if you downloaded the Free Education Edition Upgrade

Explore Diigo Groups

You can also look for Groups of interest on the MY Groups tab. Click on the “My Groups” tab at the top of the page.

Once you find a site you want to bookmark, click on the Diigo icon and a Toolbar looking like this will appear.

Bookmark Sites

On that Webpage, you can Hilight text or fotos, add sticky notes and move them around on the page. And then you can bookmark the page for your and other folks’ reference!

Once you have successfully bookmarked the page, red coloring will appear in your Bookmark.

When you bookmark, add details so that you and others can find this site again. Include a description and key “search” words called “tags”.

Add to a “List” which you can later “bookmark” to one of your Groups.Or Share with a Group directly for their instant access.

Put in Groups / Lists

Lists

Section Headings

Section Headings

In a List, Any Bookmark or Heading can be moved: Up, Down, Top, Bottom

Invite Members

Enter the email addresses of those who you want to invite into your group. You may type a message to go along with it. Only put a space between each email. Click “Invite” when you are done.

Share Individual Bookmarks

From the “Share” drop-down options, select “Get Annotated Link” and copy/paste the URL provided.

Use Diigo for sharing sites of/for:Explanation Practice Resources Tutoring Extra info Original Sources Personal interestDiscussionsCompiled sites (like a webquest)Sites to analyze (alone or collaboratively)

Students Use Diigo for:Research (even record MLA formatting in Description box)Collaboration:

Group project research/resources—espec. hilights, stickynotes

Finding practices/tutoring/helpCritical readingIndependent learning Practicing tagging