Slides AT Diigo

So Diigo allows to to create a recorded movie of pre-selected websites. It's kinda funky at first, but you eventually get the hang of it. Mine is only OK, I'll eventually add some links of others of better quality.

To get started, you need to visit Diigo.com to create an account. It's similar to the other social bookmarking sites like Digg or Del.icio.us where you can download plug-ins to capture the URL's you want to track.

Diigo allows you to create lists of URLs which group your websites by topic. So consider a list of 15 websites on Web 2.0. When complete, you can go to Diigo which creates a running movie file of your websites.

Diigo downloads the newest version of the webpage on each load, so users see the page in real-time. What I liked most is the ability to narrate the slideshow movie and even control how long each page will stay on the screen (the default is 10 seconds).

Below is my maiden voyage of Diigo. I'm going to use it in the Spring semester.

Content recommendations from Evri

Snowpacalypse

So the snow gave us a week off and hopefully a chance to work on the course designs:) I will let you know the make-up date for the Saturday session. I may end up recording it in Camtasia...we'll see.

Until then, please make sure you have at least one blog entry up for the week of 2/13. I'll be using the blogs as my primary means of one to one communication. Talk to you soon.

Don't know what Camtasia is? View my post . . . it's part of my Visual Communication workshop (the one that the snow postponed)

Post-It Sheets in the Classroom

I HEART using post-it sheets in class. Matter of fact, I use Post-it notes too . . . but that's another blog entry. Especially when I taught the same course to multiple classes, it helped me minimize the amount of writing I did. It also allows you to keep concepts 'around' even when you move on to another topic.

The following slideshow is from my days as a middle school math teacher.

Using Gmail as Mass Online Storage / Sharing

An excellent way to use Google for storage.

http://themacschool.blogspot.com/2009/10/using-gmail-as-mass-online-storage.html