Bookmarking, Del.icio.us, Diigo, and Slideshare, Oh My!

Bookmarking, Del.icio.us, Diigo, and Slideshare, OH MY!!! All of these are useful tools that will be utilized throughout my teaching career, whether I use them for myself or with my students. All of these can be used to organize and implement wonderful lessons which our net gen students will enjoy.

Bookmarking has become such a useful tool. Again, there are so many differences between how bookmarking was done in Web 1.0 compared to the new bookmarking in Web 2.0. Web 2.0 allows people to do much more than save a website in their tool bar only one one computer like Web 1.0. Now, people can download free bookmarking services like del.ic.ious and DIIGO, which allows users to store their bookmarks, categorize them, highlight important passages, attached notes to pages, tag them, and even share them with friends. But most of all, Web 2.0 bookmarking tools allows users to access their bookmarks from any computer.


I had nothing but positive experiences with del.icio.us, diigo and slideshare. I loved the fact that del.icio.us created a toolbar on my menu which allowed me to have shortcuts to my blog, website, and MSMC's online class page. I can use this in my teaching career when teaching a lesson on flowers. My students can then access what bookmarks I have saved for this lesson on flowers because del.icio.us is a social, networking bookmarking site.

Diigo allows people to highlight passages, add comments, and bookmark pages along with tagging. You can also views these in a slideshow of your pages. I personally believe DIIGO offers more than del.icio.us. I would use this service rather than del.icio.us because I can add comments and highlight information. I can also create a DIIGO group which allow my students and I to collaborate and share information regarding a lesson I may be teaching.

Slideshare is one of my favorite new tools I have come across. With slideshare, I can archive my powerpoint presentations, PDF and Word Files and create picture montages which are all shown as a sort of movie, like youtube. I even have access to thousands of other presentations because this is a social tool. This is extremely beneficial to all teachers because they do not have to worry about where they stored their latest powerpoint lesson. I have not had the opportunity to use this but I am extremeley excited and eager to do so!