Social Bookmarking Diigo.

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What is social bookmarking? It is a fairly new concept in Internet
bookmarking that allows you to not only bookmark important sites for yourself, but to share your bookmarks and find out who is bookmarking sites for areas that may interest you. In this assignment, I will have you visit 8 different sites, bookmark, tag, and complete a task for each. . .but first lets get your account started and discuss Diigo!

Before you begin the assignment, you can watch some videos about the concept of how one would use this type of site http://www.diigo.com/learn_more/research While there are many ways one can use social bookmarking, we are simply going to use diigo.com to begin the concept of social bookmarking and to complete eight specific tasks.

Getting Started

Getting your Diigo Toolbar

When you account is first created, which will probably be in class. If you are not, simple click on the tools and you should be able to add them at home are at another computer on campus. I highly recommend using

Firefox, but if you need or want to use another toolbar, then I use the tool area to find a toolbar or diigolet that could work for you.

How do I Bookmark using Diigo?

Assuming your toolbar is successfully installed, I will talk about how to bookmark. When you are on a page that you want to bookmark website or page, you can simply use the tool in your newly installed toolbar!

See Below for a description of what to do next!

Your Account
When you are on your account, it should look like this. Of course, you will not have anything in your library until you begin to use Diigo.

When you finish your assignment, there will be 8 bookmarks under your account. For each site bookmarked, there will be at least 3 tags (all sites/bookmarks will have the ed422 tag and at two other relevant tags. And if each site you bookmark gets at least 3 tags, you should have around 25 tags in your account.

Understanding Terminology for the Tasks

We will discuss this in more detail in class. Below you will be given 8 tasks to complete. Just to ensure that you understand the terminology, see below.

Your Tasks for This Assignment

Each Task will require you to bookmark a site, add tags, and leave a reflection in the description area. Read the instructions carefully as the requirements are different for each task. . . Think about this as an Internet scavenger hunt that will incorporate Diigo in the saving of the tasks. The sites were chosen to educate you on important educational issues around technology, curriculum and social justice. Enjoy! 1. Go to the National Archives website. You will be exploring their Online Exhibits. Choose an exhibit that looks interesting. After selecting an exhibit, bookmark the site to Diigo. Title add National Archives after the default title (which should be the name of your exhibit).

Description write you read/saw and comment on the value of using

primary sources in your classroom.

Tags, use ed422 and at least two other appropriate tag. 2. Explore an area of the National Education Association on achievement gaps.
Bookmark this site to Diigo. Title ensure NEA-Achievement Gap is part of the default title.

Description Under Highlights choose a highlight that looks

interesting to you. In a small paragraph explain what you learned and why you choose the area you selected.

Tag the link Ed422 and include at least two other appropriate tags. 3. Stop Cyber Bullying is a web site dedicated to educate students, parents, teachers,
and the community about the issue of cyberbullying. Post this site to Diigo.

Title ensure Stop Cyber Bullying is in the title. Description: (skip the intro) Look at the page with the grade range
you most likely see yourself teaching. Take the quiz on cyberbullying (click [Learn More] in the Are You a Cyberbully? section found at the top of the grade range page) and discuss your score. Go to the area for teachers (with the apple in the body) read a few areas and discuss something you learned and how it can help you in your classroom. (your discussion should be at least one paragraph in length) Tag for ed422 and two other appropriate tags.

4. Go to Kathy Schrocks Guide to Everything and explore. Bookmark this site to

Diigo.

Title ensure Kathy Schrocks Guide to Everything is listed. Description Pick two areas form the left column and reflect on two things that
you have learned. List the section you followed then what you learned two total (at least one paragraph in length) Tag for Ed422 and two other appropriate tags

5. Go to the Special Report on Multiple Intelligences at the Edutopia Web site.

Bookmark to Diigo. Title ensure Multiple Intelligences is in the title

Description: Read the article, take the test (on the right-hand side), and
watch one of the three videos (also on the right, under watch). List your top three intelligences (in order with the score/number given),

List and describe something you learned from the video you watched.

Tag for ed422 and at least two other appropriate tags. 6. Go to the Teaching Tolerance website.
Select the Classroom Resources/Activities from the top menu bar. Using the selector box, pick a grade, subject and topic. Find an activity that looks interesting. Post the specific lesson site to Diigo. Title ensure your Teaching Tolerance Lesson Idea is in the title.

Description: List the grade, subject, and topic you chose. Describe the
lesson and how you would use it in class. Ensure your link is to the specific lesson plan. (at least one paragraph in length)

Tag for ed422 and at least two other appropriate tags. 7. Go to the EdChange website and take the Multicultural Education and Equity
Awareness Quiz (online version-2008). Bookmark to Diigo before clicking on the on-line quiz. Title esnure EdChange Multicultural Awareness Quiz is there.

Description: List and discuss at least two questions that you found
most interesting.

Tag for ed422 and at least two other appropriate tags. 8. Go to the Free Rice website and choose a subject to play. Bookmark the subject you
investigated to Diigo. Title Ensure that Free Rice and your subject is in the title. Description: After playing for 10 minutes, list the number of grains of rice you donated. Discuss how you might use this site in your classroom. Tag ed422 and at least two other appropriate tags.

TagRoll and Submission

You will put a Diigo tagroll on your blog (you will copy the code and post it as a page on your blog). The end result should be an interactive tagroll on your blog (see sample on class blog) Teacher will go over how to post tagrolls in class. For Moodle/Cougar Courses, you will submit a link to your Diigo page!