Diigo, a website bookmarker, highlighter, and annotator

Description: Diigo is a bookmarking tool designed that allows highlighting, annotating and organising websites. Users can create groups and communities through which to share bookmarked links and collections. Other members can then easily comment on the links. Diigo offers a limited free version, together with free premium accounts available on request for teachers. Signing up for an account is required for use.

Evaluation: Diigo is a useful tool for engaged reading and creating digital collections. Through Diigo, teachers can curate lists of online resources related to their lesson topics and share them with students. Diigo can also facilitate collaborative research and information sharing.

Cost: Free with registration + paid plans available.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium. Diigo collects user data such as e-mail addresses, RL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of request. It also saves annotations made by users on its servers. However, it does not record users’ browsing history or share users’ data with third parties. Diigo hosts third parties that collect cookies, such as Google Analytics. There is little information about security in Diigo’s privacy policy. Diigo complies with the GDPR. See more here.

Type Of Interaction: Individual work,

Skills: Reading,

Content: Website/other users supply, You supply,

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