Collecting, organising & annotating the incredible resources on the web on Sustainability

We are trialling the use of Diigo to create an annotated list of bookmarks –Vicki set up a Diigo group and has been building a collection of annotated web links using those our content experts (Ray & Paul) have provided initially.
As we’ve are finding more, the list is growing.

 http://groups.diigo.com/group/gordon-sustainability

This collection might solve a number of issues that have been identified:

• How can teachers/facilitators make notes about which sites are important, what to read on a site – there’s such a wealth of information we need to provide our learners with a useful guide through it (while allowing them to extend the path/provide side branches for each other & us).
• We want a central repository of web links that can continue to grow.
• With a central repository of weblinks (accessed from all the LMS sites) we can more easily maintain the list of links – they’re all in 1 place.

 So we’ll trial this and put the link to the Diigo group into each of the LMS sites (we are creating 4 sites - 1 for each unit). We do see that it may create some issues of it's own too though - 1 we have already identified: because Diigo sits outside the 'wall' of the LMS, students need another login if we want them to be able to post links & comment. We want to make it easy for students, not put more barriers up. So will see what feedback we get when students start using it.

 

What is Diigo?


From Wikipedia: 
“Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff". From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diigo