Diigo Isn't Too Bad

Though I commented in my PLE that I did not like the layout of Diigo, I do like the purpose. I am all about collaborative research and learning (Greenhow, 2009) as mentioned in the Im & Dennen (2013) article. I think that a tool like this would be very helpful for PhD students. A group could be created by students with similar research interests or in a specific class or within a cohort. I have both asked and been asked "Do you remember that article?" or "Do you remember that website" countless times. My cohort and I pass around a lot of the same information over and over because we do not all have it in a central place. Diigo could accomplish that. I think this could also cut down on the amount of email traffic seen on listservs and the emails that being with "for those interested". People could choose to receive notifications or regularly access the group as their schedule permits After reading the article and checking out the site, I best understood it as a tool similar to Google Docs (like a Google Links maybe) that allows for collaboration and consumption. This would have been really helpful for a two week course I attended in Amsterdam earlier this month. The lecturers and students were always throwing out authors, articles, websites, and books to check out for further information. If we had set up a Diigo page, all of this information could be stored here. The course would have also benefitted from having the ability to create tags to better organize information and making it easier to search. Instead we used a Google Doc and it became more of a listing of materials. This worked, but as the list became longer, it was hard to keep up with what topics certain links were connected to. A tagging system would have eliminated this confusion and made it easier for us to find what we were looking for.