Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Using Diigo with students

I do have a love of Diigo for my own personal use.  But the last two weeks I have offered student accounts to any students willing to give it a shot.  This is hands-down the most fantastic use of technology for students and for teachers that I have seen!!! As a teacher, you can create free student accounts (that doesn't require student email address).  Also, (and this is the best part) I can check in on all of my students to see their progress.  The bonus for students - it gives them a place to keep track of their resources and it keeps a log of when they accessed their websites, which helps them later to create their easybib.  Also, my students figured out that using the note feature they can even keep their notes on Diigo as well!  Next year, I think I'm going to require all of my students to use this and hope that we can download the diigo toolbar to our school computers!
Overall, two thumbs up from me!