Technological Tools

Diigo

It is a secure subscription-based online knowledge management and social bookmarking website.
Users can upload and save personal notes, PDF documents, images, and webpages in “my library”.
Diigo Groups is a collaborative, knowledge-sharing research and learning tool that permits subscribers to pool their findings through bookmarks, highlights, and forums.

Source: Michalak, R. (2016).

	Bookmarking
	Highlighting content and adding comments for a saved webpage
	Group sharing and learning

Castek, J., Beach, R., Cotanch, H., & Scott, J. (2014). Examining middle-school students’ uses of Diigo annotations to engage in collaborative argumentative writing. In Anderson, R. S. (Ed.), Handbook of research on digital tools for writing instruction in K-12 settings (pp. 80-101). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Fenn, J. (2014). Diigo, Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, and Social Networks of Graduate-Level Coursework. In Mallia, G., & Mallia, Ġ. (Eds.), The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education (pp. 293-310). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Gao, F. (2013). A case study of using a social annotation tool to support collaboratively learning. The Internet and Higher Education, 17, 76-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.11.002
Michalak, R. (2016). Diigo. Technical Services Quarterly, 33(1), 96-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2015.1093854
Sun, Y., & Gao, F. (2017). Comparing the use of a social annotation tool and a threaded discussion forum to support online discussions. The Internet and Higher Education, 32, 72-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2016.10.001