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Blogging Cycle Again

On December 12, 2011 By

I wrote before about my thoughts on blogging, Diigo and Zotero. I created a cycle that I wanted the kids to go through with their blogging (I like mind maps). The cycle is fairly simple, students are given a reading, they use Diigo to mark up the document to create sticky notes and [...]

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Workflow

On November 30, 2011 By

When my laptop got stolen I bought a new one. Well actually SSIS bought it for me and I get to pay them back one month at a time for the next few months. I was lucky to get it back but my new laptop is…..well…….better. It’s been a few months since this happened and [...]

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Conversations

On November 5, 2011 By

Nice thing about parent teacher conferences is they sometime give you time to talk to the people you work with. I am finding the work that Danielle and Robert are doing in their Humanities class interesting. They have taken something fairly straight forward and made it into an ongoing activity [...]

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Working With Diigo

On January 25, 2010 By

“I like peer editing this way” …… I am frequently surprised with what kids like.

Started having students go through a revision process that included using Diigo to markup articles and peer edit their classmates drafts. So far we are using yellow highlights for key ideas, blue for vocabulary and pink [...]

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Group Bookmarks RSS Feeds to Webslides

On March 30, 2008 By

Took the educators at Diigo group RSS feed to show how you can add a WebSlide RSS feed to a blog. I am not sure if I missed something but when I clicked on the WebSlide icon shown in the Groups bookmarks section it creates the webslide but I could [...]

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