As you might know Twitter accepts more than just basic text. The service is UTF8 compatible which means that instead of tweeting "I love you" you could just as well use "I ♥ you".
The educational "pack" of twitterers -- join this wiki and add yours -- this helps newcomers find twitterers grouped along a common topic. I'm exploring to find people in other areas to learn from!
Lisa Parisi
This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Still not sure of all the groupings, taggings, etc. Reading what everyone writes and hoping to get it soon
Will play on Sunday with Karen McMillan and Alice Barr. Anyone else want to join? Anyone want to teach?
Kristin Hokanson
Liz I think it may be too much ially for the newbie and I will continue to send to delicious.
I was going to present 20 minutes on Del.icio.us, but I may show Diigo instead - or both - or 20 minutes is not enough....
This new version "appears" to have fixed that issue, plus I've been impressed with the new features.
Caroline Obannon
I'm second guessing teaching only del.icio.us myself, too.
Liz Davis
I'm wondering if Diigo is too much for the newbie. Delicious is so simple and obviously useful. I'm afraid Diigo would scare some people away. I'm still inclined to start with delicious and save Diigo for my more advanced users (of which I have very few).
Maybe overwhelming would describe my feelings.
However, I can defely think of quite a few people who would balk at it, too and favor the simplicity of Del.icio.us.
but most likely wouldn't participate in the social/sharing aspects they offer.
The nice thing about the Diigo toolbar is that you can select which buttons to see, so for those who might find the extra choices of tools overwhelming, it can at least be customized.
I'm feeling a Diigo obsession building. As soon as Explorer comes up I check to see if there are any messages in Diigo. How nice of them to put that number right on my toolbar!
I created my very first List last night,
Ryan Bretag
I'll join in the fun if you'll have me. Let me know time when you know.
There is one feature that I REALLY like and that is that you can EMAIL something you are tagging so for folks who LIKE to get those sites emailed, you can still meet their needs without an extra step yourself
I second that. I like Diigo, but del.icio.us simplicity is so inviting.
The value of Diigo is that it brings a number of tools together allowing for multiple entry points. The old training model is show them a tool from start to finish that goes over every single detail. With Diigo, why show everything to those new to all this? It is rather easy to click into your bookmarks. From there, teachers have a space they can grow. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to differentiate with your teachers -- the whole multiple points of entry.
still I will have fun, exploring it and making effective use of it.
it is the ease of integration with blogging and twitter -- I annotated a page yesterday and pulled it directly into my blog. I can twitter bookmark that is important quickly -- AND I can use the tagging standards for the horizon project without having to remember the darn tags -- tag dictionaries are the most useful things to have been invented in a LONG time -- we need to set them up within one of our educational groups!
I don' t think I would not teach delicious. But perhaps starting with delicious and saving Diigo for later is a good idea.
I do find this site to be much more powerful and useful than delicious. I never really used delicious to its full potential. The fact that I am here just chatting with folks makes me want to stay and contribute to the collective knowledge.
We are conversing about the usefulness of diigo and I thought you might like to be included.
Maggie Tsai has invited Wade Ren to this conversation
Are you guys planning a Sunday get-together? If so, please advise the time - I'd love to join you and help answering any question.
Howdy! Wow, what can I say? Diigo is a lot more than delicious. If CoolCat Vicki hadn't written about Diigo again, I probably would have stuck with Delicious...and,if I hadn't been using Twitter, blogs, played around with Facebook, the social networking side of Diigo would have been just so much MORE to learn.
my concern would be to NOT limit learners in workshop sessions to the path I followed in learning these tools. Simply, folks, here is a tool that will grow as you grow and learn more about living and contributing in an interconnected world. The ability to have conversations like this, to annotate web pages, to share relevant quotes and tweet as needed...makes me wonder at the need for blogs at all.
A few folks are considering exploring Diigo on Sunday morning and having a conversation about it now...join in and learn with us!
This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious -- I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.
Twitter can be used in the classroom...and, with specific parameters, students use it well
Here are examples of how I am introducing it to my students and ways I hope to use it in the future.
http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2007/11/twitter-in
Twitter can be used in the classroom...and, with specific parameters, students use it well
Here are examples of how I am introducing it to my students and ways I hope to use it in the future.
http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2007/11/twitter-in
After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp.
The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can …
1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting
2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count
3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting
4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen
5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp.
The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can …
1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting
2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count
3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting
4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen
5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
Cracking Dante's Inferno is a tough row to hoe for any high school student-but what if the reading assignment was conducted via Twitter?
The exercise "Twitter in Hell" was handed to some lucky seniors at University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, after reading the classic tome. Their mission? To write 140-character tweets describing each level in hell as if they were Dante writing to his beloved Beatrice.
A writing teacher's narrative about re-discovering a writers process by slowly learning Twitter. This is a thoughtful account that may lure some who are hesitant about using twitter into giving it a try. (More than a try really, it takes some time for you too find your voice and your audience.)
Next week, you can attend a 5 day comedy show. The hashtag is #comedyfest and it is being cohosted with Comedy Central and Twitter. Here's the New York times article on this event. Will be a neat follow for your personal life.
This is a twitter template. Another tool for offline use for those schools who don't get a lot of access but would like to bring some fun social media style activities into the classroom. You do need to join the free TES site to access these, but it is a great site and I'm finding lots of things to use.