I have used Social Bookmarking sites before to get traffic to our school website. I have used Reddit, Digg, Delicious (formerly del.icio.us),StumbleUpon websites to get our school website's content seen and shared. I think it is great way to generate engagement with community. These websites are like bookmarks or favorites, public, online, sharable and accessible from anywhere. I never used Social Bookmarking sites for my personal use. This week's task allow me to understand that it is beneficial to use it even for personal use. Instead of bookmarking websites that
I like on computer browser, it is easy to store on Diigo or other social bookmarking sites, and it is easy to access my bookmarks anywhere from any platform like desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile phones. I especially like tagging feature of social bookmarking sites, so I can easily categorize my bookmarks, and search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.
Diigo is a great tool provides premium features to teachers for free. I requested my account for education upgrade, and still waiting for approval. With Diigo education features, I can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks. Diigo pre-set privacy settings for students, so students will communicate only with teacher and classmates. In education version, Diigo only show education-related ads to student accounts. Diigo also allows me to collaborate with other teachers. For our ETEC class group, we've used Diigo to bookmark resources we found related to educational technology.
Oncemy account is upgraded to Education version, I will post more reflections about Diigo.
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