"Last fall, Princeton launched a small experiment, replacing traditional textbooks with the Kindle DX, Amazon's large e-book reader. Almost from the beginning, the 50 students participating in the pilot program expressed dissatisfaction with the devices. Yesterday, a university report offered some more definitive findings. On the upside, students using the Kindle DX ended up using far less paper. (Paper consumption was generally reduced by 54%.) On the downside, students complained that the Kindle was fundamentally "ill-suited for class readings.""

A reading and writing community started by a local high school (Silver Creek). Just shows the power of thinking outside the four walls of your classroom.

"What is Digital History? Digital history is an approach to examining and representing the past that takes advantage of new communication technologies such as computers and the Web. It draws on essential features of the digital realm, such as databases, hypertextualization, and networks, to create and share historical knowledge. Digital history complements other forms of history-indeed, it draws its strength and methodological rigor from this age-old form of human understanding while using the latest technology."

More Smartboard resources from Teacher Online Training. Some nice easy to understand videos, easy navigation, and great exemplar files. I still need to do some exploring of the files, but liked the two I looked at today.

Post it notes site similar to Wallwisher

Geared toward developing good instructional strategies for entry level geo-science courses at the post-secondary setting, the suggestions can easily be applied to 6-12 setting and are just good instructional practices. Well organized and includes different perspectives and connected content.

An easy to create activity for use with a smartboard. I like the Guess the Wordle of the Day concept, I like that students try to guess based on contextual clues, and I like that it uses the Smartboard (although it's a relatively low level usage, it's still interactive.)

An easy to create activity for use with a smartboard. I like the Guess the Wordle of the Day concept, I like that students try to guess based on contextual clues, and I like that it uses the Smartboard (although it's a relatively low level usage, it's still interactive.)

interesting photo search tool.

I'd love to play with 3.5!
Thanks,
Roland
Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Diigo V3.5 and V4 are forthcoming!
>
> V3.5 = > New UI / navigation structure (plus some feature improvements & a new toolbar)
> V4.0 = > A major release with substantial feature enhancements
>
> V3.5 is now in closed alpha stage and we'd love to invite volunteers to help out with our V3.5 private alpha testing and feedback (and agree to keep everything private prior to public release.)
>
> Given the major UI changes, we'd also love to recruit some help to write up the new HELP tutorials. If you have screencast production / tutorial writing experience, we'd love to hear from you!
>
> If you have some time to help, please post here or DM / email me. Thanks a lot for your kind help and time in advance!
>
> Best,
>
> Maggie