I appreciated the opportunity to read, "Building a Collaborative Knowledge Base in Diigo: How Links, Tags, and Comments Support Learning" by Im and Dennen. This article encourage me to think about how Diigo could be used to teach health science students.
I have been working with a graduate clinical pharmacy course. Students learn details about medication selection, dosing, drug interactions, etc. Through a student survey, we confirmed that students were not reading any of the course material. This includes clinical practice guidelines that outline the selection of agents and treatment plans. I suggested that the faculty consider using a tool called Hypothes.is. This allows PDFs to be uploaded for social annotation within Canvas.
After reading and exploring Diigo, I was thinking this offers a potential added bonus to the student. They can maintain those files and annotations for use on clinical experiences and into their professional practice. A quote from the article by Im and Denned, "student[s] indicated that... they intended to act as knowledge brokers, bringing the linked information to people in other parts of their lives." This seems an excellent value for a healthcare provider.
I was also wondering if you could build a continuing education activity around Diigo. What if healthcare providers could share resources together, discuss and use the information to improve patient care?
I am looking forward to setting up my Diigo library and tags this week.
What ideas do you have for Diigo?
Great way to use Diigo! While I do not know many people using this tool for collaboration, their Group feature certainly supports the creation of networks and possibly even communities. I primarily use Diigo for sticky notes, to jot down reminders for later use.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this article too! I agree that Diigo would be a great option for the course you are described. I believe Diigo is valuable especially in professions where research and new methods are becoming available frequently. A space to share and grow professionally would be beneficial. I work in K-12 Education and our closest thing to resource sharing and collaboration are facebook groups. You have to filter through other information and sometimes venting, to get to educational information. I think having a space to share resources with different tagging would be a wonderful and very valuable idea. I am already envisioning the tags: SEL, Core Competencies, UDL, IEPs, ELLs, Sound Wall, Phonics, Physical Literacy, all the words that I use to organize my resources into folders on my computer.
ReplyDeleteDiigo is one of my go-to tools when I want to bookmark a resource and look for it later when I need it. Tags are definitely helpful with organizing these resources. As Tatyana mentioned, groups can be beneficial to set a level of boundary within a group of learners. Look forward to hearing more about your experiences with Diigo in this class.
ReplyDeleteHello! Thank you for your thoughts. I have a question - I will post it to twitter. How do you connect to your Diigo account. Do you login each time or do you have a feed that you use to quickly bookmark or retrieve info?
ReplyDeleteI downloaded Google Chrome extension and when I need it I just pin it to the browser. Sometimes I unpin it and it doesn't take time to pin it again and bookmark a resource. So the extension function quite well for me!
DeleteHave you downloaded the extension, yet?
Yes I have and it is helpful. Thanks.
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