Social Bookmarking Website: Diigo

Classroom collaboration is an area that benefits directly from today's Internet experience in that students can develop their potential for learning by becoming more actively involved. Indeed, they can learn to approach and solve problems by collaborating with other students and their teachers. Social bookmarking websites give them opportunities to discover and organize information.

While many social bookmarking sites offer some collaboration opportunities, Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) combines a user-friendly social platform with bookmarking features and functions that make it useful for the classroom, giving instructors tools for setting up groups of students, highlighting key information, and commenting.

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