Week 3: 2/7 Getting Familiar with Diigo and loving it!

     
I logged onto Diggo for the first time and began to explore after watching a brief tutorial video. I found it helpful to watch and pause as I explored. As I always do, I took some notes to help me keep track of the order of steps. Immediately after I created my user name and password, I was saving and organizing websites and articles - It was that easy! I created a group called EDUC 584 for the purposes of collecting websites/resources for our class assignment. I even annotated a great article I found on NPR. Moving forward, this is a tool I think I will really use. The very idea of cataloging digital lists of websites, articles and resources makes me giddy knowing I will never again resort to scratching down a website address only to lose it. The other perk is that I can organize and store these resources any way I choose. If an article or website applies to multiple subjects, I can bookmark it in multiple groups. How many times have you frazzled yourself  by trying to remember a URL during writer's workshop? Students are getting antsy and the clock is ticking while your precious literacy block is slipping away like the sands of an hourglass. For me, this problem is now solved. I can easily save unit resources in specific folders and even share them with my colleagues. This is brilliant. Thank you Diigo! I am excited to collect and organize for the different content areas.

Within Diigo, I set up a folder just for this course so I will know exactly where my resources are.

In case you are interested, here is the article from NPR I found interesting.
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