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The role of a teacher in a computer based learning environment involves curating, filtering, modeling and persistent presence (Larkin, 2011b). I believed Diigo with their educators account allows teacher’s the ease of being involved in the child’s learning without the need for consistent presence and overseeing. Diigo allows teacher’s to be able to view all students’ profiles, access the bookmarks that they are tagging and the ability to adjust and annotate their works through sticky notes function; it creates a curated, filtered, modeled and persistent presence in the environment in which the children are learning. Diigo also allows students to choose what they learn and the meaning of the information that they research through a changing environment which is one of the key principles of Connectivism (Larkin, 2011a). It is important that when students are given opportunities to access eLearning they are able to be engaged as a learner; be enhanced by learning; find it easy to use; it empowers them to control their learning; and execute their own learning program (Roffe, 2004). I believe Diigo is a site that allows students to progressively build on their knowledge that they collaboratively find with guidance from the teacher. By executing and controlling their progress of learning they are able to engage fully into their own assessments and at the same time enhance their knowledge on the topic.