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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Maggie Tsai

Maggie Tsai

Online Teaching and Learning: Makin' Whuffie - 1 views

  • A sense of community is created where people have a common goal, such as a project, or can benefit from working together. One of those benefits is social capital, as mentioned above. Another is increased learning.
  • Members of an online community gain social capital by making thoughtful or helpful contributions.
  • Members of an online community gain social capital by making thoughtful or helpful contributions. This can be made tangible by a rating system - some forums have thumbs up or down or voting systems for forum posts.
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  • Social capital is a natural and logical consequence/reward of a student's (or anyone's) online behavior and contributions, and as such, it is a powerful tool for educators to include in their online courses to ensure student engagement and retention.
    • Maggie Tsai
       
      Good points. On Group bookmarks we have votes now. Will be adding more meaningful (ie. taken anti-spam into consideration) contribution attributes to reward user participation!
  • A sense of community is created where people have a common goal, such as a project, or can benefit from working together. One of those benefits is social capital, as mentioned above. Another is increased learning.
  • If you want to truly learn something, there is nothing like teaching it, so allowing, in fact encouraging, students to help one another solve problems, to teach each other, increases learning for both the helper and the helped.
  • A group can gain social capital by being proud of what it creates and getting positive feedback from other groups. A chance for students, whether working as individuals or in collaborative groups, to give feedback to each other is a valuable tool for creating a greater sense of community and engagement toward common goals.
  • Bookmarking, Sharing, Highlighting, and Annotating Online Resources:Diigo is a great tool for Educators, because you can form a group, and share bookmarks, which each member can highlight and comment on. Diigo is a fantastic tool for sharing resources and collaborating. Now, they have come out with Diigo for Educators, to make it even better!
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    Thoughtful article on "social capital"
Maggie Tsai

Diigo Groups is Future of Social Bookmarking | Get A New Browser - 0 views

  • I’ve been loving Diigo since I ditched Delicious a few months ago. They are constantly adding awesome features and today I stumbled on the groups feature. Basically it allows you to create a group of like-minded users (it can be public or private) to share links, comments and it has a forum baked right in.
  • This is HUGE… It allows you to create micro communities and adds much greater value to “social” bookmarking. You can be a part of multiple groups - which are often topical in nature. There are all kinds of different options that allow you to discuss bookmarks in comment threads and in a forum. There are RSS feeds for each group - so you don’t even have to join one to get some benefit. And there’s a great “slideshow” feature that will allow you to quickly lopp through the bookmarked sites.
Maggie Tsai

Week 2: Diigo in Education - Work Literacy - 2 views

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    Interesting discussion among educators about diigo in education
Maggie Tsai

YouTube - Teacher feedback with Diigo - 3 views

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    A video made by a teacher - how he uses diigo with Google groups to manage information
Maggie Tsai

New! Daily / Weekly Group Bookmarks Auto-Post - 23 views

group blog
started by Maggie Tsai on 07 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
Maggie Tsai

Best Practices - 2 views

  • the first great thing about Diigo is that your bookmarks follow you wherever you go.  When you bookmark a site using your Diigo account, you can have access to it at work, home, the computer lab or library.  The other great thing is that once you bookmark it, you can share your book mark links with students and colleagues and they can all have access to your sites.   
  • The next big plus to Diigo is that you get to “tag” the sites you want to bookmark.  A tag is the classification system you determine so you can organize your bookmarks and find the link the next time you need it; this is known as a folksonomy. 
  • On the sticky note the teacher could ask questions and Diigo allows people to comment and reply to the questions on the sticky note.  Students could also add sticky notes for other students to comment on as well.  Another way to use the highlighting tool is that students could go through an article and highlight all of the vocabulary that they didn’t know and learn what it means prior to reading the article.  Or students could put sticky notes about questions they have when reading the text. 
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    Diigo - 21st Century Tool for Research, Reading and Collaboration
Maggie Tsai

My E-Learning Journey: My Favorite Free Web 2.0 Tools - 4 views

  • Diigo - fab social bookmarking site for teachers. Added features include sticky notes, highlighting, great groups to join and the list feature which lets you create a feature list of sites and then you can play them like a powerpoint presentation to a class.
Maggie Tsai

Need insight on what school IT depts want to know - 65 views

school firewall whitelist
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Some schools are treating Diigo like all other SN sites and putting it on its block list. We'd like to prepare something to share Diigo's key features & benefits & how it works to make it easy for them to whitelist diigo and make it available for educators and students in school.

    We'd like to learn what issues are important to them, so we can better address them. If you have some insight, please feel free to share your thought. Thanks!
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  • Maggie Tsai
     
    @J Yates - Indeed! Any good idea on how to make "Teacher Console" even more "obvious"? Where and how?

    Welcome input from everyone. Thanks
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Bill,

    Have you tried diigolet yet? It should be a lot easier (no download required) - and we'd love to hear more input on how we can approach / work with school IT dept. Thanks!
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Great Toby,

    After we roll out the next major release, Phase II of Diigo Education Network will be next - ie. a dedicated education network only for educators and students!

    So, stay tuned and please do continue to give us feedback! Meanwhile, while we're doing our job of making diigo better and better, we'd love to have your help ~ please help to spread the love of Diigo and allow more people to benefit from our robust sets of productivity tools, and help us to grow this powerful knowledge sharing community, so everyone can benefit even more from the community collective wisdom!

    (Note: should we be somewhat "quiet" on the user forums sometimes, don't worry! We haven't taken off to hang out on the beach :-) With your input, we're doing active listening and thinking. Our entire team has been working hard not only on the next rounds of new releases,we are also busy helping the migration of Furl users to Diigo - many are also educators :-) While we really love to be responsive and interact with our users whenever we can, we are a small team (with big ambition :-) , and everyone juggles multiple tasks. Given our limited bandwidth, there are time that we just need to concentrate on getting our work done. Thanks for your understanding and continued support.

    So, keep the conversations & feedback coming. Together let's make Diigo better and better :-)
Maggie Tsai

Q&A: How to set my group email alert preference? - 46 views

alert notification email
started by Maggie Tsai on 29 Oct 08 no follow-up yet
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Q: How to set my group email alert preference?

    A: Two easy ways to set your email notification preference (Not subscribed, Weekly, Daily, or Immediately)

    1) Under each email, you will see this footer message:

    You received this message because you are a member of the xxx group.
    Your setting indicates that new additions to the group should be sent to you - Weekly
    Click to change to: Daily, Immediately, Not subscribed

    Just click the link (make sure that you're signed into Diigo) and set your own preference.

    Or, 2) Go to each group, upper right hand corner, click "Edit My Membership" >> "Subscribe Group" tab to set your group digest email alert preference setting
Maggie Tsai

McCunications: The power of Diigo - 0 views

  • What I like is that Diggo not only lets you easily save items, it lets you highlight the "good parts" so that when you go back to the article you can easily find them. That turned out to be a real asset when I was working on my part of the JACC Norcal keynote a couple weeks ago.It's been a real pressure cooker of a semester, so I had very little time to put my JACC presentation together. However, I'd been bookmarking, highlighting and saving relevant blog posts and articles into my JACC list on Diigo (yes, you can categorize what you save) for weeks. So when I finally sat down to create a presentation, I had everything I needed at my fingertips. I was able to put it all together in a day. (By the way, you can view that presentation, Journalism in the Starbucks Era, on SlideShare, another great online tool.)But after downloading a Diigo update this morning, I realized I'm just scratching the surface of what you can do with Diigo. For example, my previous blog post on Greenspan's sudden epiphany...well, I posted it direct from Diigo while reading and bookmarking the article. Pretty cool, huh?When I ran through Diigo's "how-to" overview this morning, I found several other things I didn't know. In addition to using the one-click "Send to Blog" feature, you can also use Diigo's "send" feature to:send annotated and highlighted pages by emailpost to other websites such as twitter, facebook, delicious, etc.Cool! I'm using it for a tweet next.
  • But what really caught my attention was the idea of using Diigo as a hub for group research projects. You can set up a group Diigo account to share bookmarks, and make it public, private or semi-private. This has real potential for students working on group projects, especially since Diigo's "sticky note" feature also lets you add comments to the material you save, in addition to highlighting key passages.OK, I'm sold! I'm going to start demo-ing Diigo for my students.
Maggie Tsai

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 - 48 views

vote learning web.20
started by Maggie Tsai on 24 Oct 08 no follow-up yet
Maggie Tsai

Diigo that Research ~ "Around the Corner"-MGuhlin.net - 0 views

  • A problem that we all have is getting access to the best research on using technology to impact education in K-16. Why not form a Diigo group that shares this research as it emerges, summarizes it a bit and discusses relevant findings?I want to encourage you to join it and share the research that you stumble upon out on the Web.It's more important than ever that we all have access to this information in ONE, easy to add to place, and Diigo makes it easy to accomplish that...as well as annotate and include links.
Melanie Jennings

Diigo training materials - 83 views

diigo training
started by Melanie Jennings on 07 Oct 08 no follow-up yet
J Yates

A Few Questions - View Annotations filter - 62 views

annotation filter
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Sorry for my late reply - being very busy lately.

    > Is there anyway to moderate what comments my students make on sticky notes on webpages? I can do it with forum posts but there seems to be no option on the notes.

    Not yet - we will take this into consideration, although to enable this option will involve very complex backend changes.


    > Can I lock the accounts from being able to add friends or groups from outside the ones that I set up? I'd prefer to restrict them to just the school's groups (at least at first). If I can, then I don't see a problem with allowing all pupils (even those under 13) from being able to personalise their profiles.
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    To clarify for everyone: here is what the current Phase I allows: students (ie. student accounts created by teacher via the educator account) can only invite / send "friend invites" through email (ie. people that they already know) and no one else (except their teacher / students friends) can send friend request to them. They can however join a public group.

    We will discuss your feedback for our future release. We know that Phase I is not "perfect" yet, although it addresses some of the most major concerns to help teachers / students get started - we are doing a phase-approach development to observe & clearly define teachers / students true needs (not just "wishlists") , so that the "final" version will truly be a community-engaged solution that fits the needs of many.
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    Currently, if you use toolbar, you can filter annotations via the sidebar: This URL >> Annotations >> See group only.

    We will implement / enable a "on-the-page" view annotations filter (ie. all, private, or group-specific only) in our next toolbar release update.
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    View Annotation Filter is now available on the latest Diigo toolbars (Firefox and IE), so that you can view all, private, group specific annotations, or none on the page!

    http://blog.diigo.com/2008/11/08/diigo-firefox-toolbar-change-log-ver-3165/

    Check it out.
Maggie Tsai

Teaching and Teching: Health Ed 2.0 - 2 views

  • I am incorporating a number of web technologies to enable greater learning within our group. To do this, I am using a number of tools for specific processes that will increase their interaction with each other in then learning. To the students, learning a new tool will no doubt be exciting, however it is the purpose behind the tool that is important.
  • I will be using Diigo to allow collaborative research. I love the Diigo Educator account,
  • Finally, I'm going to use dabbleboard as a psuedo-back channel. This will be a space for them to post questions and comments, and at the same time allow all of them to respond to the questions or comments. Any unanswered questions will be answered by me after the lesson, and the board saved.
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