Social Bookmarking This week, I had to try Diigo. Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that enables you to search, bookmark, organize, archive, share, discuss, and annotate materials on the web. I signed up for my account and started bookmarking random things. I remembered in the reading that, as an educator, I could get an upgraded account. So I filled out the information and waited. More than 48 hours passed, and I still need confirmation about my upgraded account. I contacted the support desk and was told since my district doesn't have a .edu account, I had to verify my school email address before I could receive an upgrade. I finally received my confirmation email for the upgraded Diigo account. Now it won't load, and there is an error message saying to try again. My adventure with Diigo didn't go as well as with the other Web 2.0 tools I have tried. I watched countless videos and read several articles, but I couldn't find a purpose for Diigo. However, I kept digging and found this article about "101 Web 2.0 tools". When I made it to the 2nd paragraph, the Heading was Bookmark Managers. It defined bookmark managers as an easy way to build a personal directory where researchers can tap into sites and materials saved online and share them with others. Was Diigo on this list? Yes, it was. This article helped me to understand what Diigo could be used for, so I wasn't as frustrated as when I tried all week to understand the purpose of social bookmarking with Diigo. The article mentioned other bookmark managers, including Facebook, Pinterest, Yahoo! Bookmarks, and Twitter. Even though they don't function like Diigo, they can serve the same purpose. Since part of our adventure is to continue to find Web 2.0 tools, this article did it all. I found quite a few interesting tools that I haven't used before. I only played with some of them. The one that grabbed my attention was Web Poster Wizard http://poster.4teachers.org/. It said that I could make worksheets. Not only could you make worksheets, but it had features for rubrics, quizzes, and notes. It was incredible; I could do so many things in one place. I also continued to build my educational playlist on YouTube and used Twitter this week. One of my followers that presents at our TCCA Conference follows me, and she liked one of my tweets. I felt so special.
