Diigo


 * [[image:diigo_icom.jpg]] || = Contestants will access Diigo, a social bookmarking site to search for and save web links to improve efficiency by providing one location to access favorite web resources. = ||

﻿Before beginning this journey, you should create an account at [|www.diigo.com].
1. Create a Diigo Educator account at [|www.diigo.com]. For a new account, click Get Started Now! We will upgrade to an Educator later. Note: Resource for more Learning: [|diigo Tour] (worth watching later!)

2. Fill out form, creating a username and password. (Please write your login information in your Team folder). Click **Continue**. You will need to check your email to click the link to activate your account.

Note: Later you may want to upgrade to an Educator account (free) by going back to [|Diigo] and signing in to Diigo, then clicking Educator next to Get Started Now! [You have to be signed in to your account first]. Fill out the application and submit. The more information, the better chance you will be approved. You will need to use your school email on the form. Here is the contact email for reporting problems with an educator account: [|education@diigo.com]. Once approved, you will receive an activation email. Check your spam folder if it’s been more than 48 hours.

3. Once your account has been activated, login and you should see a new screen with your name. We won’t use this time to set up your profile; you can accomplish that at another time. We will need to add diigolet to make bookmarking easier. Click Tools at the top right of your screen.

4. On the left menu under Diigo Tools, click Diigolet.

5. Under **Internet Explorer** on Step 2, right click the button and click “Add to Favorites”; if a box appears with a warning, click **Yes**, then **Add**.

6. Locate Diigolet in Favorites on your computer and drag it to the very top for ease. Now, we will practice bookmarking a site. Return to Diigo (login) and notice the different tabs at the top. All your bookmarks will go into **My Library**, and giving your bookmarks tags will help you when you try to search for it again. The **Network** tab will be where you add your friends and colleagues. **My Groups** is a collaborative group to pool resources and communicate. The **Community** is all bookmarks from all Diigo users and becomes a dynamic search engine.

7. Let’s locate a resource to bookmark. Go to the **Community** tab. Under **Hot Tags** click Technology. It will bring up all the bookmarks with the technology tab. Look at the right and you can refine your search more by choosing another category. Let’s click. You now can see all the technology education sites. Find one that you know is exceptional to share with others (later). Note that you can view how many people have bookmarked each link, and the tags give you more information.

8. Once you locate one to bookmark, go to the site, and **Diigolet** will load. You can see the history and comments that Diigo users have posted. This one has 17 comments; you can choose to post your own comment by scrolling down to the end and typing in your own comment.

9. To view the entire site, you have to remove the bottom screen by clicking the down arrow.

10. Notice at the top right, you have several options.Let’s click the **Like** button, and then **Save**. Another menu will pop up so that you can add tags and share to a List or Group.

11. Add extra tags if you need them and click **Save**.

12. Click your Back arrow to return to your search results.

13. Click **My Library** to see your first bookmark :-)

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">14. Now we will go to the web to locate a resource and use the highlight tool and the sticky note tool. <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Go to this website: []

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">15. Under the heading, “Top Content”, there are videos to watch (later); go under Blog Posts for text, and click **View All**; Locate and read the blog post from Julie Boyd named: **Schools as Collaborative Learning Communities**

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">16. Decide on a section that you would like to add a comment, highlight, and share with the group. Now we will open our Diigolet tool by going to Favorites and clicking Diigolet.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">17. Next we will join a group to follow under the **My Groups** tab. Look for the **Search for a group** box and type in your choice keyword such as: curriculum, principal, leadership, professional development; vision, school improvement, etc.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">18. Once you locate the group that you would like to join, find this button and click it. <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Another menu will pop up where you will type out a request to join, and then decide if you want to subscribe to posts through your email (optional). Click **Finish** to complete your request. Congratulations, you have joined your first Diigo group! The power of this tool is that you can create your own groups and choose to make them private or public.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">19. We created a group for LCM Admins and you were sent an invitation to join. If you did not accept the invitation, then you will not be able to view that group. Under **My Groups** locate the **lcmadmin** group which you have accepted the invitation.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">20. Click the title of the group and post a bookmark to one of your favorite websites. Click **Bookmark**and complete the URL, title, and a few tags; Click **Post** to submit.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">21. Next, under **My Library** or **My Groups** find a bookmark (or post) to submit a comment. Note that in a private group, you can pull in the dynamics of communication and collaboration using this feature; when members share their thoughts on an article, video, comment, etc.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;">You have completed Journey 6, please logout and give the Journey 6 card to a race coordinator.

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;">Congratulations…you are ready to move on to your next journey!

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