Diigo and Its Potential Use for Academia

Each week in class, we are being introduced to multiple different social media tools and how we can benefit from them in an educational setting if we use them properly. This week, we specifically looked over Badge List, Nuclino, Quora, Wikipedia, Diigo, Pinterest, and Peartrees. In the Spark Page on curation that was shared with us this week, we were also given a glimpse of Storify as well which has since become obsolete. Some of these tools I have used for years and am very familiar with, others I am just being introduced to this week. I can see the many and varied benefits of these tools but I can't lie and say that it doesn't feel like a lot. Who knew the Web 2.0 was THIS big?

Since I began the ISLT program here at FSU last year, I have been looking for a tool that I could use to collect and organize the many different academic journal articles we discuss in each of my classes so that I can refer to them at a later date if need be. I figured this would be useful for me since I am looking to go onto a doctorate program and information from my master's has to come into play at some point during it, right? I had been downloading articles to my laptop, but they are taking up memory that could be put to good use in another capacity so I decided that a web tool would be my solution. I had not found that tool until we as a class looked into Diigo this week. I am impressed with Diigo because you can upload an entire PDF into it, keep tabs on where it is within the site by using hashtags, and even decide whether or not you want users other than you to be able to view it. It does all this while still being user-friendly and relatively minimalistic in visual style, which I appreciate!

What are your experiences with Diigo? Have you ever used it in an academic capacity? What do you think of it? Please let me know in the comments below!


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