Further to my initial thoughts of linking up the use of Diigo annotations with Google Notebook use I have developed a visual workflow of how a student might interact in this way. The context could be anything from a simple reading comprehension task in a literacy session to ongoing research within history or any other such subject.
Pedagogically Diigo is being used here as a tool to scaffold and support the child’s interaction with a website. When thoughtfully used I think that it might provide a new level of interactivity to those static, non-interactive, information heavy websites. Of course Google Notebook’s part in this process is as a written record, a place to respond for the child without having to navigate from the browser.
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I am pleased with the simplicity of this idea and how it could be aligned to most subjects – the next step seems to be to finalise how the notebooks are organised. I have added some simple Diigo notes to this poem by Charles Causley as an example, but it is not difficult to see how this can be used. One further development in terms of how you as the teacher organises the Diigo annotations is to use the tags to categorise the work you are doing, for example “comprehension”, “poetry”, “inference” – this would be a useful way to help signpost the work completed too.
Please contribute any further ideas as to how Diigo may be used in such a way or perhaps combined with another tool.
Hi Dan – yes of course Ultralab! We have aschool login for del.icio.us at the moment. del.icio.us/priestsic
Keep checking the blog as I get stuck into using Diigo more as stated and let me know what you think.
Futurelab is still very much here – I think you’re referring to Ultralab – which sadly is no more.
I agree that it should be schools sharing with schools but with the understanding that it is schools as made up of lots of individuals sharing ideas/resources (I am quite sure that tagging within schools will still be emergent folksonomies, so descriptions formed through groups of people tagging). To begin with it will be the ‘early adopters’ but over time I think this could be a great tool for sharing resources.
Diigo does link all of it’s tags directly into del.ici.ous as well – so perhaps this is where there is even greater scope for cross over.
Incidentally, do you have one school logon for the account or does each student have their own login?
Hi Dan – many thanks for your comment, I use del.icio.us for bookmarking and the network feature is the equivalent of what you refer to in Diigo. We have begun a schoolwide del.icio.us account and it would be great to add other schools to that network, so not just keen individual to keen individual but school to school sharing of these resources. Thanks again, I would be interested in hearing what sort of work is going on at FutureLab at the moment – although I had heard it no longer existed??
Great post Tom, thanks. You mentioned Diigo’s annotation/tagging – as more and more teachers begin to use this, I think it will provide a fantastic way to share resources between professionals when constructing learning experiences.
For example, my growing list of tools http://www.diigo.com/user/dannno/tool could become really useful when linked to others’ lists through Diigo’s sharing function etc.
Thanks for this, Tom – it’s got me thinking. As I posted over at my blog, however, is that Firefox and toolbars for Internet Explorer aren’t allowed at our school… 🙁