Diigo in our science class

I've been playing around with Diigo the last month in the classroom. I love it. The students have been looking for websites about Taiwan's geology and there just isn't much out there for their reading level and that's in English. What I've been getting them to do is find a site, and read through it. Even if they don't understand most of it, there is usually something small or short that they can glean from it. Anyway, they then bookmark it to our class's group page and include both a highlight and a sticky that points out the small tidbit of information that they found on it. What we ended up with was a wealth of websites where the students could then go to and immediately find the important and helpful parts of each site. I'm astounded because now the students have a wealth of resources and they'll be able to visit numerous sites but their research time of wading through unrelated material is going to be cut in half because their peers did that for/with them! I love Diigo.

What I hope to do next is have the students create a wiki about Taiwan's geology based on their research. Then wouldn't it be great if I could get someone from the government or university to look at their wiki and give them feedback? There's nothing else like that out there about Taiwan, in English at an adolescent's reading level so it would really be contributing something new - now how cool is that? Will it really happen? I don't know but I'll try and I'm hopeful.

In any case - Diigo is cool.

(Another note) A math teacher heard what I was doing. She had wanted to create a list of math games sites for her students. She had everyone find a site and email her the URL and then she posted the word document she made. When she heard about Diigo - she was floored. That was exactly what she had wanted to do but didn't know she could. There are so many possible ways to use Diigo. How do you think you'd use it? Or have used it? I'd love to hear about it.