My Thoughts of Using Diigo and Pinterest

This is my first time using Diigo and Pinterest, and I feel both of them are powerful tools to collect, organize and share knowledge. Diigo allows users to bookmark and tag webpages. More importantly, it allows users to save websites and access them on any computer. Users can highlight any part of a webpage and add notes if needed. The notes can be kept private, shared or forwarded to someone within a Diigo user group. Pinterest is another tool to store and save information in one organized place. Pinterest uses a visual pin board to save websites that have an image associated with the page. On Pinterest, users are able to set up different boards for the same use. I feel that Diigo is more useful in academic study and research. I like to use this tool to save some websites that are useful and important to my teaching and categorize the websites into different topics as my teaching resources. Before knowing Diigo, when I needed to find some information for my teaching from different websites, I will put them in my favorite links in my laptop. One challenge is that I collected so many favorite links in my laptop and it is very hard to find one when I try to find some reference. The problem is that the favorite links are computer-dependent, if I use another computer, I have no way to find my favorite links to those websites. This problem does not exist by using Diigo. After I learn how to use Diigo, I can build my own online teaching library, and I can save pictures, notes and websites to organize my thoughts. I also like one feature of Diigo as it can highlight any part of the webpage and attach notes when needed. It helps me collect material to prepare an organized presentation. Both Diigo and Pinterest are free on-line tools for users to save and organize favorite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other online materials. I feel Pinterest is more useful in classroom teaching as it has more visual effects. With Pinterest users can interact by commenting on other user’s pins or to follow their board. As I teach a second language, I prefer using Pinterest in my classroom for its immediate visual presentation of images. It is helpful to use Pinterest to create various educative pin boards and tell my students to follow my pins. In this way, I can pin educative images related to the topic subject I would like to teach, and my students will find it easy to relate to these images. I feel that it is more natural to use Pinterest together with interactive smart white board in my classroom.

Labels: Diigo, Pinterest, Technology