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Evernote and Formative Assessment

On April 3, 2011 By

I find, when working on projects, that I end up having conversations with my students about their work and then need to take notes about what we had

discussed. I rotate through each student looking at their work offering suggestions listening to their comments and having them tell me why they choose to do what [...]

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Had a Look at Gruml Today

On May 20, 2010 By

Been a while since I used Gruml but read an article about it today so I tried it out again. Was quite impressed. An offline reader that has quite a number of capabilities that impressed me. With one contextual click I can send an article to a number [...]

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Netvibes

On December 16, 2009 By

We started blogging at SSIS last year in September using Edublogs. Although I really like edublogs and the support I was given the issues we had with blogging due to our lack of bandwidth made the experience fairly painful.

I was pushing for a local install of [...]

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Making Widgets

On April 23, 2008 By

Been having some fun playing with Sproutbuilder. They have added new capabilities that I like. In particular a history that allows me to more easily undo the many mistakes I make. My design capabilities, obviously need some help, but you can create great widgets that mash together all sorts of content. The widget on this [...]

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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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