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Exploring Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age
Exploring Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age
BYOL Diigo Session Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Alice Mercer and Jennifer Dorman are leading this hands-on Diigo session. Love the ease of sending a Diigo link out to your blog - or to Delicious. The highlighting and annotating features take bookmarking to a next level. "Diigo is way to digest and retrieve information later," Maggie Tsai, Diigo developer, is explaining.
For classroom teachers, the ability to add definitions, explanations, etc., makes Diigo a great tool for scaffolding access to online text. If the sticky notes get overwhelming, you can hide them. You can also create groups. Worried about monitoring? No problem. You have lots of options that will work with your district's AUP. You can block to public or open it to let others view it. Use the gmail alias hack to set up students accounts - approved by you. OR...coming soon...teachers will have the option of creating student accounts - without student email accounts. Diigo = critical literacy tool. Use for reflective writing. When searching a topic, use Diigo instead of Google to provide students with previewed, reviewed sites. Classroom idea: set up a "tag" dictionary - it's one of the options available when you create Diigo groups. Makes for easy evaluation: search a tag and then you'll see which students have annotated the site. Concept of tagging vs. concept of list - You can switch list into slideshow presentation of the websites you have chosen from Diigo. The pages are "live," not just images.  Flag as inappropriateComments No comments have been left for this entry.Leave a comment This K12HSN blog does not allow anonymous comments.
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