Week #5 Social Bookmarking and Tagging

I have created an account with Diigo and have mainly used the bookmarking facility at the moment.  However, I think this could be really useful because I have to use a range of different computers at school, as well as my laptop and desktop at home - and obviously don't have bookmarks on them all - I do often do a Google search to get to particular sites- not a big hassle but it does then take longer.  I haven't found bookmarking on the intranet particularly reliable as they can disappear without warning - usually at the most inopportune moment.  One way I have worked around this when working with students is that I put links into a Word or PDF document and then saved it into my own or a student accessible folder so that we can all get ready access.  I think Diigo will therefore be useful when I'm working with students on a particular topic and I have already identified relevant sites.  As I work with a minimum of 6-7 classes and so have 6-7 different inquiry learning topics going at the same time, I'll have to have a bit of a play with the groupings of sites etc.  I may find that I'll have to subscribe as an educator rather than on the free subscription.  I'll be interested to see tomorrow if this - like many of the other web 2.0 tools - is blocked at DECS sites though!!