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University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:46:44 -0000

Hi All,

Just want to share an interesting OCW/OER compilation post I did the other day, which you might find useful.

This post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one quick-to-access/find juicy compilation.

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

It would be interesting if others could share with me repositories to add to the list, or any feedback would be wonderful (positive and negative) :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid
post by zaidlearn on 2008-06-23

Recommendation for this group membership setting

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:55:04 -0000

admin |control |spam | post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-15

To prevent / deter spam, I would like to bring this group setting option to your attention:

Instead of a public group opens to anyone, you may wish to set "who can join" to a "moderated" setting, which means that one needs to apply / request to be admitted to a group. You can change the setting in "Group Admin" > > Group Overview > > Who can join (Apply to join -- moderator approval required or By invitation only)

Your group is a great valuable resource for other educators, and we'd love to assist you to keep its high content quality. Ultimately the group owner and group members have the "responsibilities" to actively monitor, control the content (actively remove inappropriate ones), etc. Group manager also has many group settings (such giving more trusted group members "moderator" status...) Like to invite you to read the "Group" in our Help to learn more about various options available to you.

Let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

~ Maggie
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-15
Vicki,

Good resources here. Would you like us to feature your group? (Note: if a group is being featured, while it gets great exposure and attracts more like-minded folks, there is also the potential downside to attract some spam as well.) Just let us know if you're interested or not. Either way is fine.

Keep up the great work.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-27
We would love to be featured, just let us know when you do this, so I will be extra vigilant.

I wish there was a way to request people to send me a comment about why they want to join -- or when I am approving their membership that some basic profile would show. Or when I put my mouse over their name, that their profile popped up in a box. Moderating does take a bit of time!

Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Vicki,
>
> Good resources here. Would you like us to feature your group? (Note: if a group is being featured, while it gets great exposure and attracts more like-minded folks, there is also the potential downside to attract some spam as well.) Just let us know if you're interested or not. Either way is fine.
>
> Keep up the great work.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-06-20
Vicki Davis wrote:
> We would love to be featured, just let us know when you do this, so I will be extra vigilant.

k - will do.

>
> I wish there was a way to request people to send me a comment about why they want to join -- or when I am approving their membership that some basic profile would show. Or when I put my mouse over their name, that their profile popped up in a box. Moderating does take a bit of time!

hm, currently the comment to group owner is optional. Your suggestion makes sense. will discuss here.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-06-20

WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:24:17 -0000

free |virtual_classroom |virtual_whiteboard |wiziq | post by markcruthers on 2008-05-11

I recommend the educators in this group take a look at WiZiQ's free virtual classroom platform. Mark Cruthers Link to March 17 Demo Replay. http://www.wiziq.com/Replay_Session.aspx?key=t&id=73125 WiZiQ is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is associated with their profiles, by uploading PowerPoint presentations and PDF Files.
post by markcruthers on 2008-05-11
I like WiziQ, but remember, Mark, that this is a place where we share bookmarks for purposes of education -- I don't really think that this entire posting is appropriate -- just a link and suggestion would have been appropriate. The forums are really for everyone to discuss things and ask questions. If you represent WiziQ - it would have been more appropriate to share information and then use the forum to ask people to give you feedback. However, if you're not going to interact here and check in, maybe the link would suffice. Vicki Mark Cruthers wrote: >
> > I recommend the educators in this group take a look at WiZiQ's free virtual classroom platform. > > Mark Cruthers > > Link to March 17 Demo Replay. > http://www.wiziq.com/Replay_Session.aspx?key=t&id=73125 > > > WiZiQ is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is associated with their profiles, by uploading PowerPoint presentations and PDF Files. > >
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-06-20

delicious vs. diigo

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:06:52 -0000

vote | post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-27

http://techfridge.blogspot.com/2008/04/delicious-or-diigo.html

Please cast your vote on the right. (If you vote for Diigo, thanks! sorry, a shameless self-plug :-)
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-27

TOP TOOLS FOR LEARNING

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:27:02 -0000

diigo | post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-14

Just found this - TOP TOOLS FOR LEARNING http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

Anyone knows Jane? Would appreciate some help to put some words about Diigo to Jane Hart! Thanks a lot!
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-14
Jane's list is generated by compiling what other learning professionals have submitted as their own personal top ten tools. Of the 155 people who submitted lists, only 5 included Diigo as one of their top 10. Diigo's #72 out of the 100, so it did make the list. If you want it higher up, you'll need to get more people saying they use it and submitting their lists to her when she updates the top 100 again in the fall.

You can see the comments about Diigo here:
http://c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/diigo.html

Hope this helps.
post by christyinsdesign on 2008-04-15
Thanks Christy. Very helpful info! Sorry, I didn't read the list carefully earlier. Well, glad to know Diigo made the top 100 cut this time, and moving up steady! I think it reads 52 for Spring 2008 vs. 72 for 2007. Of course, this data doesn't reflect all the new V3 changes...

We will continue making lots more improvements and try harder to move up even more for her Fall list again in the summer. Would certainly appreciate everyone's kind help!
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-04-15

The tags we're using

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:38:37 -0000

diigo | post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29

I hope some of you will take a look at the tags-- I had to make them shorter than I use in delicious b/c of how they show up on the screen. Just testing this - we need to get these tags settled pretty quickly before they get into wide use.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29
am a little confused - do you mean the bookmark tags? or the topic tags?

Vicki Davis wrote:
> I hope some of you will take a look at the tags-- I had to make them shorter than I use in delicious b/c of how they show up on the screen. Just testing this - we need to get these tags settled pretty quickly before they get into wide use.
post by dragonsinger57 on 2008-03-30
May be overkill, but could we set up a wiki that shows the 'full name' and then the abbreviated tag next to it? That might help w/ consistency, not only in this group, but others as well?

Left column: full name of topic/tag
right column: tag itself

ie
Educational Technology - et
post by edtechdiva on 2008-03-30
Vicki, I am probably being a bit thick here, but I cannot find the standard tags, unless they are the ones that show up in the right hand column under related tags when you click on:

http://groups.diigo.com/educators/bookmark/tag/bestpractices

including the tag 'bestpractices' of course. Do I understand this right, please?

Also, please confirm for a newbie like myself. The idea is to use these tags with any others as appropriate. These are just tags that were set up at the start of the group to make life easy, helful and fruitful for us all as we share, right?

Sorry to be obtuse or confusing if that is how it looks, but I don't want to share too much until I know what is what.

Thanks for setting up the group by the way. I was thinking today that educators can be a real power for good in the world.

Vicki Davis wrote:
> I hope some of you will take a look at the tags-- I had to make them shorter than I use in delicious b/c of how they show up on the screen. Just testing this - we need to get these tags settled pretty quickly before they get into wide use.
post by htjoshua on 2008-03-31
When you click "send to group" a list of 16 tags pop up -- these are from the tag dictionary -- each time you send to the group, you should select at least 2-3 of those.

It lets you do this. http://groups.diigo.com/educators/bookmark/tag/professionaldevelopment
and http://groups.diigo.com/educators/bookmark/tag/edu_news

Does this make more sense?

Oh, and we only get 16!
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-04-09

Tag Overload

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:29:36 -0000

no_tag | post by jmaklary on 2008-03-30

I like the idea of a shared group. Should we consider some tagging standards to help with organization? Already there are a LOT of tags and I've been finding that too many tags make important links get buried quickly. Should groups be more topic specific? I guess we're all trying to get comfortable with diigo.
post by jmaklary on 2008-03-30
Group,

I just posted the below in several forums. Thoughts are appreciated.

Standardized Tagging
So I'd like to call for a virtual meeting to discuss tagging structures. I've had a chance to look at the tagging dictionary and the community tags work well, but my thoughts are on a system that goes one step further.

Example: if you tag podcasting, you really are covering a lot of group. Is the site a how to, best practice or general example? What can happen quickly is that you get a list of 50+ podcasting links and you've got to sort through them to find specific content. I was Skyping Michelle Krill earlier and we brainstormed a few ideas.

Think of file formating. Excel = .xls Word = .doc Flash = .swf, etc...
If we chose (Michelle's term) add-ons, we could go a long way to better organizing our resources. Example: If you find a site that is a best practice for wikis, you wouldn't tag it wikis, you would tag it wikis_bp. If you find another wiki site that shows how tos, wikis_ht. This would allow for your tags to stay together, but better sort the resources. We could start with the development of standardized tagging add-ons. Think of this as an IEEE approach to education. Who is interested in meeting to discuss?

MB

John Maklary wrote:
> I like the idea of a shared group. Should we consider some tagging standards to help with organization? Already there are a LOT of tags and I've been finding that too many tags make important links get buried quickly. Should groups be more topic specific? I guess we're all trying to get comfortable with diigo.
post by eduwikius on 2008-03-31
I'm hosting a virtual conversation to discuss standardized tagging at the below link. The meeting will run today from 1-2 pm EST.

http://208.185.34.51/launcher.cgi?room=southside

You need to leave the Room ID as southside and please enter both your first and last name in the name field. This can take a few minutes to load if you haven't used Wimba in the past. Feel free to invite anybody interested in the topic.

MB

Michael Baker wrote:
> Group,
>
> I just posted the below in several forums. Thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Standardized Tagging
> So I'd like to call for a virtual meeting to discuss tagging structures. I've had a chance to look at the tagging dictionary and the community tags work well, but my thoughts are on a system that goes one step further.
>
> Example: if you tag podcasting, you really are covering a lot of group. Is the site a how to, best practice or general example? What can happen quickly is that you get a list of 50+ podcasting links and you've got to sort through them to find specific content. I was Skyping Michelle Krill earlier and we brainstormed a few ideas.
>
> Think of file formating. Excel = .xls Word = .doc Flash = .swf, etc...
> If we chose (Michelle's term) add-ons, we could go a long way to better organizing our resources. Example: If you find a site that is a best practice for wikis, you wouldn't tag it wikis, you would tag it wikis_bp. If you find another wiki site that shows how tos, wikis_ht. This would allow for your tags to stay together, but better sort the resources. We could start with the development of standardized tagging add-ons. Think of this as an IEEE approach to education. Who is interested in meeting to discuss?
>
> MB
>
> John Maklary wrote:
> > I like the idea of a shared group. Should we consider some tagging standards to help with organization? Already there are a LOT of tags and I've been finding that too many tags make important links get buried quickly. Should groups be more topic specific? I guess we're all trying to get comfortable with diigo.
post by eduwikius on 2008-04-02
Just remember that we only 16 tags -- that is NOT a lot!

Also -- looking at it by NOUN is important. Who is a person -- I"m an administrator so I'd be interested in this. I found that structure really helped me in delicious.

Finally -- we need to leave room for folksonomy still -- and should understand which tags are for what -- people aren't yet selecting from the tag dictionary we're using so we're not getting the benefit of the true aggregation that we can have.

Vicki

Michael Baker wrote:
> I'm hosting a virtual conversation to discuss standardized tagging at the below link. The meeting will run today from 1-2 pm EST.
>
> http://208.185.34.51/launcher.cgi?room=southside
>
> You need to leave the Room ID as southside and please enter both your first and last name in the name field. This can take a few minutes to load if you haven't used Wimba in the past. Feel free to invite anybody interested in the topic.
>
> MB
>
> Michael Baker wrote:
> > Group,
> >
> > I just posted the below in several forums. Thoughts are appreciated.
> >
> > Standardized Tagging
> > So I'd like to call for a virtual meeting to discuss tagging structures. I've had a chance to look at the tagging dictionary and the community tags work well, but my thoughts are on a system that goes one step further.
> >
> > Example: if you tag podcasting, you really are covering a lot of group. Is the site a how to, best practice or general example? What can happen quickly is that you get a list of 50+ podcasting links and you've got to sort through them to find specific content. I was Skyping Michelle Krill earlier and we brainstormed a few ideas.
> >
> > Think of file formating. Excel = .xls Word = .doc Flash = .swf, etc...
> > If we chose (Michelle's term) add-ons, we could go a long way to better organizing our resources. Example: If you find a site that is a best practice for wikis, you wouldn't tag it wikis, you would tag it wikis_bp. If you find another wiki site that shows how tos, wikis_ht. This would allow for your tags to stay together, but better sort the resources. We could start with the development of standardized tagging add-ons. Think of this as an IEEE approach to education. Who is interested in meeting to discuss?
> >
> > MB
> >
> > John Maklary wrote:
> > > I like the idea of a shared group. Should we consider some tagging standards to help with organization? Already there are a LOT of tags and I've been finding that too many tags make important links get buried quickly. Should groups be more topic specific? I guess we're all trying to get comfortable with diigo.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-04-09

RSS feed to WebSlides

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:12:31 -0000

diigo |rss |webslides | post by gebertoia on 2008-03-30

Used the Bookmarks 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 not find the embed code.

So the steps I used involve:

* get the feed that you want (http://groups.diigo.com/rss/educators/bookmark)
* go to http://slides.diigo.com/ to decide what type of web slide you want to use
* add the RSS feed to the the WebSlides
* decide on how you want to display your WebSlide
* copy the embed code into your blog post or page
post by gebertoia on 2008-03-30

Keeping your e-mail from being inudated

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:39:17 -0000

efficiency | post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29

Remember to go to edit membership and set this to e-mail you with a daily or weekly digest.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29
There should be an RSS feed for just the forums as another option than email digests, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I put a request into tech support and will post here when I hear back from them.

Of course, if anyone else is able to get the RSS feed working, please let me know.
post by christyinsdesign on 2008-03-29
That is right -- we should be able to have RSS feeds all through here - Why didn't I think of that?
Christy Tucker wrote:
> There should be an RSS feed for just the forums as another option than email digests, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I put a request into tech support and will post here when I hear back from them.
>
> Of course, if anyone else is able to get the RSS feed working, please let me know.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29
It's working now. Joel Liu emailed me earlier to let me know it was fixed. If you have any problems with the RSS, be sure to report it.
post by christyinsdesign on 2008-03-30
Thanks, Christy. I'm still having problems with the RSS feed. I'm using NetNewsWire on my Mac. I tried it on two different computers and on the first one when I clicked on the RSS icon it opened NNW, downloaded the entries in the forum, and then froze my computer. On my MacBookPro I received this error message:
Can’t display news for this subscription because:
The feed for “http://groups.diigo.com/rss/educators/forum” could not be found.

Don't know if these are Mac issues or possibly just problems on my computer. I won't give up though!
Peggy
------------
Christy Tucker wrote:
> It's working now. Joel Liu emailed me earlier to let me know it was fixed. If you have any problems with the RSS, be sure to report it.
post by pgeorge on 2008-03-30

Thanks for the delicious help tip -- added to Diigo's official HELP files

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:39:09 -0000

diigo |howto | post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-29

Notice this great help file http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ahjrstnd78fn_138bzzxsdp
We have just added the link to our HELP file http://help.diigo.com/ (see bottom)

Please kindly advise who is the creator, so we can give proper credit. Thanks a lot!

Also, any one interested in helping out with refining our help files? It's a wiki platform and we can grant editing right access to those interested helping out. Thanks

~ Maggie
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-29
I'd be willing to help with the documentation.

Not to toot my own horn too much, but I did a quick slideshow on how to set up the daily blog post. You're welcome to add that to the resources too.
http://www.slideshare.net/christyinsdesign/daily-blog-posts-with-diigo

-Christy
post by christyinsdesign on 2008-03-30

Shared Videos

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:26:44 -0000

videos | post by mguhlin on 2008-03-29

I just shared my all time favorite videos for presentations with all of you! I hope you'll share back with the rest...there's about 60 videos in my bookmarks that I can select from. Instead of using an image, I like to use a video. This makes for uncertain presentations...time for the video and to present eat up the time!

Still, the right video can help things along! The presentation becomes an experience, not a way for the presenter to share his/her brilliant ideas. At least, that's what I think NOW. Who knows how that may change?

Your thoughts?

Best wishes,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner
http://mguhlin.net
post by mguhlin on 2008-03-29
Thanks for sharing these great resources!
Miguel Guhlin wrote:
> I just shared my all time favorite videos for presentations with all of you! I hope you'll share back with the rest...there's about 60 videos in my bookmarks that I can select from. Instead of using an image, I like to use a video. This makes for uncertain presentations...time for the video and to present eat up the time!
>
> Still, the right video can help things along! The presentation becomes an experience, not a way for the presenter to share his/her brilliant ideas. At least, that's what I think NOW. Who knows how that may change?
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Best wishes,
> Miguel Guhlin
> Around the Corner
> http://mguhlin.net
post by ffoxworth on 2008-03-30

Understanding WHY to tag here

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:14:39 -0000

howto | post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29

Now -- IF you're using the standard tags in our tag dictionary (you have to click on the group name ) -- see http://groups.diigo.com/educators/bookmark/tag/bestpractices

This is everything tagged best practices over here -- We are going to have some VERY useful resources put together by all of us. Note the RSS button on the top right hand side!
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29
Thanks that was very helpful....
post by wcgaskins on 2008-03-29

How to make the most of this forum

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:43:28 -0000

diigo | post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29

As we see things emerge in this group -- as we start sending our bookmarks, you can set "thumbs up" or thumbs down -- you can also add your comments -- send it to your diigo bookmarks or other groups and as soon as it is populated, we'll get some fascinating things from the RSS for these tags.

Please share what you learn as we test this together.

I see that annotations are one of the most useful features as well as highlights - -we need to start considering that as we look at these sites to extract meaning.
post by coolcatteacher on 2008-03-29