Argh! When I returned from vacation I got so caught up in reading everyone else's blog that I forgot to get my own done!
I investigated different social bookmarking tools for an assignment a few years ago and wound up recommending Furl and Diigo. I had been using
Delicious but liked the additional features of the other two. In the end, Diigo bought out Furl so my decision was simplified! I only wished I had been using Diigo right from the start of my student days as the commenting, archiving, highlighting and sticky note features would have been extremely helpful. As I became more comfortable with it, I started to use it as a search tool by entering tags to see what sites others had bookmarked with those same terms. I would look to see how many people had bookmarked a site and use that as a gauge of its value. I also started to come across the same users over and over again and began to identify some as 'experts'. Instead of using a search engine and sifting through pages of results, I would simply look to see which sites they were identifying. Another use for Diigo that I hadn't anticipated came when our home computer crashed. If my favourite/bookmarked sites had resided only on my browser, they would have been lost to me and I would have had to start collecting them all over again. Thanks to Diigo, I had a 'backup' set!
So, for Library Lady's questions this week...
I bookmarked
Mathematical Fiction and
Mathematics in Movies using the tags
mathematics, fiction, and
numeracy education. And yes, I will definitely continue to use Diigo outside of Betty Blogger summer school.
