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=__DIIGO – Bookmarking and Highlighting __=

Greg Noack
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PART ONE(click on the video to make it larger)
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PART TWO (click on the video to make it larger)
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My Description of my Learning Process.

When I heard about the assignment I immediately thought of Diigo, especially after learning about all the online reading and researching we were going to be doing. I have been using the bookmarking feature of Diigo for about 6 months, but knew that it included a highlighting and annotating feature that I had not explored yet. I came up with a couple of options and asked my learning circle what they wanted to do. I was hoping to try a Skypecast or Screencast as I had not done either of those before, but the feedback I received suggested that everyone was too busy to set up a meeting time and that it would be better for me to make a training video that everyone could watch.

I began exploring how the tool worked while reading the online journals such from the Pepperdine Library and other websites. I soon discovered that the highlighting feature was not as simple to use as I had thought nor did it always work. I began reading through Diigo help files, Googling for help, and I even contacted a Diigo developer that I met through twitter in order to get a few answers about how the highlighting features worked. Specifically I wanted to know if it was possible to turn off the highlighting so that you only see your highlights on a page instead of everyone's. I was worried if we all started highlighting the same page it would get rather messy. I learned that the highlighting can be turned off, and I learned that only the highlights with a public sticky note would be visible to others. I also spent some time with Dan as we explored oovoo, his tool, and he helped me explore mine.

I also learned that Diigo does not always work on every webpage. This is especially true of the journals from the online library. I did not research why they didn’t work, as I assumed it had something to do with logging into the library and security measures set in place. At this point I became frustrated and starting looking for other highlighting tools. I found two others but I did not like their functionality or the interface. I decided to stay with Diigo.