Personal Learning Network

Building your Personal(or Professional) Learning Network aka PLN.  

There are lots of tools and sites online to inspire, organize and share all that there is to learn about.  In fact if this blog has shown you anything there is too much to remember all that you have learned.  Here is a great tool to help you keep track of all your new online discoveries.  This is an especially great tool in conjunction with Feedly and Pintrest.  All those great blog articles and lesson ideas you discover, this is a tool that allows you to collect, and organize them.   I love, love, love Diigo.  Below is a video to show you all the cool feature of this tool.  First sign up at Diigo.com , be sure to sign up with your teacher email and fill out the teacher application for extra special teacher features.  Then if you are using Chrome (and really why wouldn't you be, because Chrome is awesome) go to the Chrome store and get the Diigo Extension.

It is like a cross between Pintrest and the Bookmark Bar This is a perfect tool to use in conjunction with Feedly.  With so many new articles and idea this is a great way to read, highlight, make notes and then file it away for later (like next year later).   I really like that I can keyword search for my bookmarks using the tag feature and can search for my bookmarked pages using keywords.  It is a lot like Pintrest, but has the extra features of highlighting, sticky notes and more sharing options, so Diigo can be great to use while getting lost in Pintrest (which I do with a shameful about to frequency).  Also like Pintrest this is a collaborative tool as well.  Share with friend, the world or no one, and like Pintrest others can contribute to your folders.  So for all that stuff you find online here is another really great tool for you to stay orginized and be able find your cool finds later.