http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/ Around the World in A.cademic T.echnology Ways: Adventures in Education, Languages, Culture and the New Web Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/comment-page-1/#comment-47 The World A.T. Ways » In which I enjoy marking Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:15:53 +0000 http://www.worldatways.com/?p=501#comment-47 [...] Barbara and I already talked about Diigo extensively in a previous post and have even interviewed Ma... Diigo is a social bookmarking and annotation tool that has quite an active community. In fact, I would say that professionally, Diigo is my most useful social network. I’ve found countless pertinent websites by using Diigo’s toolbar effectively. In fact, if you install the Diigo toolbar and sign up for an account, you’ll notice that some have added sticky notes and comments to our blog posting on Diigo itself. Another tool in Diigo’s educational war chest is something called webslides. First, you can create a “list” of bookmarks. Then you can choose to view it as a webslide; in essence turning your list into a slide presentation. For example, here is a webslide I created to introduce students to Bullfighting. I have experienced one issue with the webslide function that I wanted to share with you: by clicking through the presentation, you’ll notice that some sites have “timed out”. Too, videos on YouTube tend to not be playable through the webslide. We invite you to listen to our previous interview with Maggie Tsai to learn more about Diigo. [...] [...] Barbara and I already talked about Diigo extensively in a previous post and have even interviewed Ma… Diigo is a social bookmarking and annotation tool that has quite an active community. In fact, I would say that professionally, Diigo is my most useful social network. I’ve found countless pertinent websites by using Diigo’s toolbar effectively. In fact, if you install the Diigo toolbar and sign up for an account, you’ll notice that some have added sticky notes and comments to our blog posting on Diigo itself. Another tool in Diigo’s educational war chest is something called webslides. First, you can create a “list” of bookmarks. Then you can choose to view it as a webslide; in essence turning your list into a slide presentation. For example, here is a webslide I created to introduce students to Bullfighting. I have experienced one issue with the webslide function that I wanted to share with you: by clicking through the presentation, you’ll notice that some sites have “timed out”. Too, videos on YouTube tend to not be playable through the webslide. We invite you to listen to our previous interview with Maggie Tsai to learn more about Diigo. [...]

]]> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/comment-page-1/#comment-24 The World A.T. Ways » In which the top 10 tools for language educators in 2008 are revealed Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:57:17 +0000 http://www.worldatways.com/?p=501#comment-24 [...] DiigoEvery educator needs professional development and this year Diigo has become my main, always-available, personalized learning network resource. Diigo has allowed me to not only save and annotate my own discoveries, but to see what other like-minded intellectuals have discovered, too. Barbara and I inteviewed Maggie Tsai of Diigo earlier in the year. If you haven’t already list... [...] [...] DiigoEvery educator needs professional development and this year Diigo has become my main, always-available, personalized learning network resource. Diigo has allowed me to not only save and annotate my own discoveries, but to see what other like-minded intellectuals have discovered, too. Barbara and I inteviewed Maggie Tsai of Diigo earlier in the year. If you haven’t already list… [...]

]]> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/comment-page-1/#comment-19 The World A.T. Ways » In which social networks are explained along with other amazing feats Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:59:29 +0000 http://www.worldatways.com/?p=501#comment-19 [...] To not feel like a virtual wall flower, I invite you to connect with Barbara and me on Twitter and Diigo. You can find links to our profiles [...] To not feel like a virtual wall flower, I invite you to connect with Barbara and me on Twitter and Diigo. You can find links to our profiles

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