No more xeroxing assignment sheets!

Local ed tech expert Lucy Gray mentioned an interesting new online tool in her blog a few weeks ago (here and here).  Diigo allows you to annotate web pages - basically you’re creating online sticky notes.  Others can add their own sticky notes or comment on yours.

Assuming you have access to a lab, or your students have reasonably guaranteed access to computers out of school, this seems like a really neat tool: assign students an article to read, and monitor their comprehension/participation by asking for a response right in the text.  Or, assign an article and annotate it with a discussion question to be answered.  Or, ask students to find articles themselves and annotate them.

I’m picturing HS students, but I bet middle school kids could do this too.  You can make private groups in Diigo, so your class’s annotations won’t be seen by the public.

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