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Diigo provides a forum for teachers and students to discuss areas of share interest,

With every Diigo user tagging and annotating pages online, the Diigo community has collectively created a wonderful repository of quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in.

Here’s an example. I’m thinking about having my 7B’s record radio plays. I’ve looked them up online and found many scripts from all the old classics available. However many also contain the old endorsements from tobacco and other companies. So I go to a play that I’d like to my students to record and highlight the old commercial. If they’re using diigo when they access this page they’ll see the same text highlighted in pink, and when they mouse over the highlighted text they’ll get a hidden message from me – “I’d like you to write a new advertisement for this section. What other advertisement do you think we could write for here? Write an ad for a virtue or trait that you think is important. For example – “Here’s a news flash for every person in Canada. It’s about a sensational, new kind of personality that will make you the envy of all those around you. It’s call trustworthiness. Why with just a pinch of this great product….” They now have a writing assignment to go along with the recording of the radio play.

Adding assignments is just one possibility. You can ask questions about the site, or have students carry on conversations about the text. Perhaps about the validity of some information. These notes can be made private (for your eyes only), public, or for a select group of people. You could use the same webpage for multiple classes, and have a different set of sticky notes for each one! Diigo will also create a separate webpage for each group you create, helping you organize your bookmarks/notes further! This technology is useful for any class, but I think is a must have for any group trying to organize something along the lines of the 1 to 1 projec

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I can see PLNs trading ideas via Twitter, and then using Diigo to bookmark and annotate the various sites.

If I knew what the fifth generation was I wouldn’t be sitting here! Brain-computer interfaces are amazing, let’s see how well they can be made to work. For the best ones, of course, you need an implant, but if non-contact brain-computer interfaces get better that would be marvellous. What would be the killer app of a thought-controlled computer? Professor Andrew Blake, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, England Thought control might be at its best when we are wandering around the street. As we said, it’s already acceptable to have ear phones plugged into your head, but if I want to find my way through the city I’m going to look a bit of wally chatting about where I want to go. If I could replace that by thinking, great. Even more so, there’s what I think of as a The Devil Wears Prada scenario. Meryl Streep is at a party and wants to network but she can’t actually remember everybody’s name, so her two lovely assistants have memorised an entire album full of faces and biographies. Whenever someone comes up they whisper to her who it is, so she goes “Oh, darling, John!” as if she knew who it was. If I could have that in my phone, it would be fantastic.