Diigo as a “Learning to Learn” Tool [Library: Feb 11, 2010]

This was a presentation the Library asked me to give at a faculty meeting. The time was one hour. The basic topic asked for was to talk about how some piece of technology might be used in library faculty presentations to students.

I chose to do Diigo, because I think it is primarily a tool that is about curation of resources, something that is central to what library faculty do for students and faculty.

Summary

Moving from Dee Fink’s integrative model to technology, we will discuss how use of Diigo fits into “Learning to Learn” goals. We will also demonstrate how it can be used to put together presentations, curate lists of educational and scholarly resources, and be distributed to students as a follow-up.

Goals (using Fink’s 6 part model of integrative ed):

Foundational Knowledge: Participants will understand what social bookmarking is, why we need it, how it fits into curation of resources and the learning to learn piece of integrative education.

Application: Participants will curate a list of resources in an area that might be useful for a talk they give. This application will involve getting people signed up with accounts and set up with the Diigolet bookmark.

Caring: Participants will hopefully see how this might save them time, and make their resource lists more universally available. An indicator of this might be whether any participants end up using Diigo or Delicious.

Integrative: Not much time for this, but one component to discuss might be how this might help in things other than presentations to students.

Human Dimension: Reflection/Presentation on how this sort of open practice relates to general societal goods. General issue of open culture, reduplication of work, etc. Shirky’s “Your Filter is Broken” idea, and the idea of LL objectives empowering students.

Learning to Learn: A Diigo List of course! The list will contain links participants can use to expand their knowledge of social bookmarking. Additionally the process of bookmarking will show participants a potentially helpful way to go about their own research and collaboration.

Presentation:

Introduction

Recap of Integrative Education

Shirky Video: Your Filter is Broken (first five or so minutes)

Focus in on Learning to Learn (LL). Example for short presentation might be list of resources. But part of Learning to Learn is that the techniques we give to students will help them solve the problems they face in world of work, life of the mind, etc.

Introducing Diigo.

Tour of Diigo, examples.

Activity

Activity: Each participant will build a curated list of resources in the area of their choice.

• Get people accounts
• Have them install Diigolet (using Diigolet instead of plugin to avoid install issues)
• Target: 7 resources
• Add to list *and* tag
• Add descriptions to each (or excerpts)
• Add highlighting to one example

Reflection:

If time permits, deal with questions of integration/human dimension.

Resources:

Diigo List: http://www.diigo.com/list/mikecaulfield/library-diigo-talk-21110

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