Hi everyone. Hope you're enjoying your holidays. Thanks to those people who've put in some excellent resources; I've already saved quite a few of them to my class groups. I'm in the process of transferring a lot of bookmarks that I had saved previously so more should keep appearing over the next few weeks. My wife thinks I've become a crank. I tell her I'm collecting history websites. On that note, I just wanted to start a thread on ways that the group or even online tools other than Diigo can be used practically in our teaching. I'm into real things that can be applied directly in the classroom, so the more truly useful we can make tools like Diigo the more everyone will benefit. Perhaps even the students. I try to save the tags in such a way that if you search for a time and place along with what type of source you want (e.g. "primary sources" or "maps") you'll get the best refined search. Many sites however are so comprehensive that it's impossible to add enough tags to cover the material (unfortunately there's a maximum of 20 tags allowed (>).(<)>ve purposefully restricted membership to the group for history teachers. That way we should be able to maintain quality-control and relevance of bookmarks. If you have any other ideas about how people can use the group in their teaching or even their own research please post. I know many of you are dynamic in the ways you use different online tools so the more input we have here the more we can spread our ideas. Cheers.
Thanks to those of you who are posting those excellent resources to the group. I'm sure other people are finding them useful in their teaching and in student research. I just wanted to let you all know that I've created a group tags dictionary (I finally figured out how to do it) that you can use when adding sites to the group. When you click to add a bookmark you'll see a dropdown list which contains the groups you belong to. By selecting History Teachers there you'll bring up a list of tags most used by the group. It makes it easier for you (you just click them and they get added as tags) and it also helps other people find your cool bookmarks later. It helps make the whole group a lot more effective.
started by David Hilton on 08 Jul 09
Thanks to those people who've put in some excellent resources; I've already saved quite a few of them to my class groups. I'm in the process of transferring a lot of bookmarks that I had saved previously so more should keep appearing over the next few weeks. My wife thinks I've become a crank. I tell her I'm collecting history websites.
On that note, I just wanted to start a thread on ways that the group or even online tools other than Diigo can be used practically in our teaching. I'm into real things that can be applied directly in the classroom, so the more truly useful we can make tools like Diigo the more everyone will benefit. Perhaps even the students.
I try to save the tags in such a way that if you search for a time and place along with what type of source you want (e.g. "primary sources" or "maps") you'll get the best refined search. Many sites however are so comprehensive that it's impossible to add enough tags to cover the material (unfortunately there's a maximum of 20 tags allowed (>).(<)>ve purposefully restricted membership to the group for history teachers. That way we should be able to maintain quality-control and relevance of bookmarks.
If you have any other ideas about how people can use the group in their teaching or even their own research please post. I know many of you are dynamic in the ways you use different online tools so the more input we have here the more we can spread our ideas. Cheers.
I just wanted to let you all know that I've created a group tags dictionary (I finally figured out how to do it) that you can use when adding sites to the group. When you click to add a bookmark you'll see a dropdown list which contains the groups you belong to. By selecting History Teachers there you'll bring up a list of tags most used by the group. It makes it easier for you (you just click them and they get added as tags) and it also helps other people find your cool bookmarks later. It helps make the whole group a lot more effective.