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This screencast was created by Lisa Thumannn for a group of educators who do not have the administrative rights on their computers in school to install the Diigo toolbar or even the Diigolet. When you first join Diigo, it's not obvious how to add a bookmark and they were blocked by the district's filter from the Diigo Help menu. This short tutorial explains how to get to a screen where they can easily add a bookmark.

"Mike - "Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets -- if you teach them how to analyze data - they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets." Cyndi - "Get rid of the network nazi's -- people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions." (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.) Mike- Leadership is everything - 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen"

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