Diigin' the Diigo

I'm not big on browsers add-on, but Diigo may be an exception. You can view my Diigo bookmark page to see some of my favorite science and educational pages. I will probably discard my current bookmarks in IE -8 and join the cloud with Diigo. I am running the Diigolet add-on to bookmark pages to my Diigo account  for my future use. I'm also running weather and translator add-ons. Both of these add-ons are on IE-8. The only other internet browser I've experienced is Firefox, which I do not like; I guess that is because I was trained on IE and can navigate through the toolbar with ease. An add-on is a small piece of software that is used by another, larger piece of software to improve your experience. In short, an add-on is something that can enhance or increase the use of an internet browser. I use the weather add, because I like to check the weather forecasts everyday and now I don't have to go to a separate website when I want to check the weather forecast. I use the translator add-on to translate a foreign website into English. I am a collector of and very interested in surplus military firearms, many of which are from non-English speaking countries. Also, some of the links/buttons in my blog are in Spanish and I cannot change my settings to English, therefore I use the Google translator. The three add-ons I use installed and run seamlessly.

I believe this activity mostly falls under ISTE NETS T standard three, because we are joining a very large, culturally diverse learning community where our bookmarks can be used throughout the world. Throughout the coming weeks we will be using this Diigo tool to "model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning."(ISTE NETS T, Standard 3.d)