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I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas?
Paul McKenzie wrote:
> I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas?
I would like to try this, too, but I have a problem with student access to diigo and to other Web2.0 sites, based purely on the fact that these sites require a validated email account to sign up. My K-12 public school system does not allow student email accounts, and the school filtering system blocks access to personal email accounts such as AOL or GoogleMail or Yahoo Mail. I would need to depend on students to use their home email accounts and to sign up/validate at home, and I don't want to assume that every student has access to email; this would be discriminatory toward students without home email access. Any thoughts about this? Is my school system the only one that has this limitation?
Sharon Elin wrote:
> Paul McKenzie wrote:
> > I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas?
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> I would like to try this, too, but I have a problem with student access to diigo and to other Web2.0 sites, based purely on the fact that these sites require a validated email account to sign up. My K-12 public school system does not allow student email accounts, and the school filtering system blocks access to personal email accounts such as AOL or GoogleMail or Yahoo Mail. I would need to depend on students to use their home email accounts and to sign up/validate at home, and I don't want to assume that every student has access to email; this would be discriminatory toward students without home email access. Any thoughts about this? Is my school system the only one that has this limitation?
No you are by far not the only school system with this limitation. My school system has this limitation too (I will graduation high school in 2010). I do have a school email account, but only because I am in a computer class where email was part of the curriculum and my teacher sends files and links through it. It is a limitation that we must overcome if we are to move forward in having students using and learning to use the web, properly.
The only solution to this barrier that I can think of, without resorting to getting email for all students, is to make class Diigo accounts and have the entire class use that same account. I am not sure if Diigo allows multiple, simultaneous logins and account usage though, so that may not work.
Randy N
Paul McKenzie
Sharon Elin