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DIIGO - diigo.com

Social bookmarking site - allows you to: save sites - with an annotation as to why it is of interest highlight text on any web page place a sticky note on any web page with a comment (can be public or private) Can take a snapshot of the page - so you can look at it later. Can put on a Read Later list. If already have a Delicious account, you can have Diigo automatically add to Delicious

Request a Diigo for Educators account - they must approve to make sure you are an educator. Special perks: Can create a group - 30 Diigo accounts (put in students names - **don't have to have email addresses**) - Diigo generates a list of students with login and passwords. Have a private group ("walled garden"). Students login and add toolbar - now you can work together.

DEEP reading of text that is online - can pose study guide questions. Can assign literature roles to students - word wizards, discussion director, etc.
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Summarizing - able to see what the students are highlighting and annotating.

How does a scientist or historian write?

Do research - you are looking at the sites that other people have found valuable, so it is a good place to start research.

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