This tutorial will walk you through the basic components of Diigo--a premiere social bookmarking tool. I use Diigo every day!

1. Diigo Basics
Diigo’s opening page looks like this:

3. Join Diigo
Fill out your account information. Hit Continue.
After you have an account, you can click on the Free Education Edition Upgrade.

4. After you hit Continue, this is the screen you will get asking you to confirm your account via
your email.

5. Educator Upgrade
It will ask you to sign in with the account information you created.

6. Advantages of Educator Account
Diigo is a great enabler for active reading, project-based
learning, and better collaboration, particularly with respect to:
• how students and teachers acquire, research and organize
information
• how students can engage in active and critical reading
online
• how teachers and students can engage each other
collaboratively in reading, researching, interpreting, and
critiquing information
• how students can work effectively as a team, in project-
based learning, that requires the team to acquire, analyze
and synthesize information from a variety of resources

7. Download the Toolbar
Step 1 is to get the toolbar on your computer.

8. To do this later, or on another computer, go to TOOLS / Diigo Toolbar.

9. Once the toolbar is installed a blue Box with a “d” will appear & stay on your computer.
(Note: it may also appear inside the “Other Bookmarks” toolbar across the top.)

10. Create Groups
Click on the “My Groups” tab at the top of the page. Then click “Create a new
group” button on the right.

11. Fill out the form and click “Create my group” at the bottom when you are done.

12. Create Lists
Click on the “Diigo” drop down bar in the Diigo toolbar. Go to the “My Lists” sidebar, and
click “Create a List..”

13. After clicking on “Create a list,” you will get this window. Title your list and then
click “OK.”

14. As you get entries collected, the option to create Lists will also appear in My Library.

15. Search Sites/Explore Diigo Sites
Hit the community tab to view trending bookmarks--educational if you downloaded
the Free Education Edition Upgrade

16. Explore Diigo Groups
You can also look for Groups of interest on the MY Groups tab. Click on the “My
Groups” tab at the top of the page.

17. Bookmark Sites
Once you find a site you want to bookmark, click on the Diigo icon and a Toolbar looking like
this will appear.

18. On that Webpage, you can Hilight text or fotos, add sticky notes and move them
around on the page. And then you can bookmark the page for your and other folks’
reference!
Once you have successfully
bookmarked the page, red coloring
will appear in your Bookmark.

19. When you bookmark, add details so that you and others can find this site again. Include
a description and key “search” words called “tags”.

20. Put in Groups / Lists
Add to a “List” which you can later “bookmark” to one of your Groups.
Or Share with a Group directly for their instant access.

21. Lists
In a List, Any Bookmark or Heading can be moved: Up, Down, Top, Bottom
Section Headings
Section Headings

22. Invite Members
Enter the email addresses of those who you want to invite into your group. You may
type a message to go along with it. Only put a space between each email. Click
“Invite” when you are done.

23. Share Individual Bookmarks
From the “Share” drop-down options, select “Get Annotated Link” and
copy/paste the URL provided.

24. Use Diigo for sharing sites of/for:
Explanation
Practice
Resources
Tutoring
Extra info
Original Sources
Personal interest
Discussions
Compiled sites (like a webquest)
Sites to analyze (alone or collaboratively)

25. Students Use Diigo for:
Research (even record MLA formatting in
Description box)
Collaboration:
Group project research/resources—espec.
hilights, stickynotes
Finding practices/tutoring/help
Critical reading
Independent learning
Practicing tagging