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started by Carla Arena on 30 Jun 08
  • Carla Arena
    #1 Carla Arena on 30 Jun 08
     
    Share with us some uses you can think would be profitable and useful for the Webslides. Would you use it with a group of students or for Professional Development?

    We're eagerly waiting for your brilliant ideas and enriching contributions.
  • Mary Hillis
    #2 Mary Hillis on 01 Jul 08
     
    Hi Carla and LwCers,
    The Webslides are really visually appealing and would be great for use with a class or for professional development.

    For use with a class, you could bookmark some sites you wanted students to take a look at and embed the Webslides widget on your class blog or site. The slideshow may be more attractive than a simple list of links, and may appeal especially to visual learners.

    For professional development, using the Webslides feature would be a nice way to showcase a project or to create a kind of portfolio. During the Blogging4Educators session that we co-moderated earlier this year, we created a lot of content on various sites. I bookmarked these sites, saved them to the list Blogging4Educators, and then looked at the webslides. It looks really professional, and is easy to share with others!
    http://slides.diigo.com/list/mhillis/blogging4educators

    Looking forward to hearing more great ideas about Webslides!!

    Mary
    Carla Arena wrote:
    > Share with us some uses you can think would be profitable and useful for the Webslides. Would you use it with a group of students or for Professional Development?
    >
    > We're eagerly waiting for your brilliant ideas and enriching contributions.
  • Carla Arena
    #3 Carla Arena on 03 Jul 08
     
    Wow, Mary, I loved our Blogging4Educators webslides. The cool thing is that you don't need to spend any extra time to prepare them. They are already there. Did you know that you can make webslides for specific feeds as well as bookmarks?

    Here's a fantastic tutorial http://help.diigo.com/How-To_Guide/WebSlides

    Oh, and we can add a sound track to the Webslides, too.

    As for students, you're right. It's visually appealing and we can direct them to specific sites.

    I'm preparing a special webslide to show you here in some days, very soon! It's related to a post Michele Martin wrote about creating our personal e-portfolios using bookmarkings, so I'll show you what I came up with!

    Thanks for being here with us.

    Carla having fun in Boston

    Mary Hillis wrote:
    > Hi Carla and LwCers,
    > The Webslides are really visually appealing and would be great for use with a class or for professional development.
    >
    > For use with a class, you could bookmark some sites you wanted students to take a look at and embed the Webslides widget on your class blog or site. The slideshow may be more attractive than a simple list of links, and may appeal especially to visual learners.
    >
    > For professional development, using the Webslides feature would be a nice way to showcase a project or to create a kind of portfolio. During the Blogging4Educators session that we co-moderated earlier this year, we created a lot of content on various sites. I bookmarked these sites, saved them to the list Blogging4Educators, and then looked at the webslides. It looks really professional, and is easy to share with others!
    > http://slides.diigo.com/list/mhillis/blogging4educators
    >
    > Looking forward to hearing more great ideas about Webslides!!
    >
    > Mary
    > Carla Arena wrote:
    > > Share with us some uses you can think would be profitable and useful for the Webslides. Would you use it with a group of students or for Professional Development?
    > >
    > > We're eagerly waiting for your brilliant ideas and enriching contributions.
  • Paul Beaufait
    #4 Paul Beaufait on 04 Jul 08
     
    On first glance, it seems like WebSlide shows would be ideal for introducing cohorts of students new to blogging for educational purposes to the works of their near peers and recent predecessors.

    For professional development purposes, hmm..., profiting from use of WebSlides requires deeper reflection than a late afternoon chocolate fix and fiddle driven Celtic rock songs in French blaring from the computer speakers seem to facilitate.

    There are already too many browser tabs left open waiting for another new list to show up in Diigo to feel certain that I'll get through bookmarking them before quitting time half an hour ago.

    It looks like rain, and I don't want to stretch this screenburn- and keyboarding session to the point that i miss the sole bus headed my way home this evening.
  • anamaria menezes
    #5 anamaria menezes on 04 Jul 08
     
    Dear Carla and Mary,

    What a nice tool this webslides is. I wen to the link Carla mentioned in message #3 and tried to make a webslide out of my blog but wasn´t able to as it says the feeds to my blog aren´t working, then I tried to make a webslide out of my "listening" list. How great!

    http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=5250

    so, let´s imagine I wanted to my students to explore some listening sites, like I have done before, the webslides would have been much more interesting than the list of links I provided them.

    I tried to make a webslide out of my pageflakes but that wasn´t possible either as I wanted for my students to see their blogs are a whole in slides.

    Well, I´m still thinking of the potential of webslides.

    anamaria
  • Carla Arena
    #6 Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Wow, Ana! I loved your collection! Thanks for sharing it.

    As soon as I get another group of students, I really want to show them a collection of links in webslides mode. As mentioned before, it makes it visually appealing and it organizes stuff for us.

    I don´t know where I saw Paul´s comment about adding voice to the Webslides, which I thought was pretty interesting to test. We can add a sound file to a webslide, so we can narrate our slideshow here and even guide students. As Paul mentioned, it´s a matter of synching our narration to the time of each slide, which shouldn´t be that hard using a recording program like Audacity.

    Thanks everybody, for sharing here ideas.

    So, here goes mine!

    Some weeks ago, I read Michele Martin´s interesting post about creating an e-portfolio in Delicious.
    http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog//2008/06/using-delicious.html

    As we had started testing Diigo, I decided to start my portfolio here just by deciding on a unique tag, digifolio_carlaarena. Then, I created a list called "digifolio" and started adding the pages that represented my work, projects, thoughts, ideas, collections. It's just in the beginning, but I guess it has potential and it can show a bit about who you are, what you believe in, what you do in a very interesting way. Still lots to do, though...I want to narrate it or, at least, add some music to it, but I haven't had time (suffering a lot on vacation in Boston!!!). The description of my list, I used to add some info about the digifolio. Then, for the description space for each link, I added some aspect about my project, work, collection or thought. Well, just an idea. I hope you enjoy it. And suggestions and comments are always welcome to improve it!
    http://slides.diigo.com/list/carlaarena/digifolio

    Do you think it's an effective way to showcase or at least give a nice sample of our professional development?

    anamaria menezes wrote:
    > Dear Carla and Mar
    > y
    > http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=5250
    >
    > so, let´s imagine I wanted to my students to explore some listening sites, like I have done before, the webslides would have been much more interesting than the list of links I provided them.
    >

    > Well, I´m still thinking of the potential of webslides.
    >
    > anamaria
  • Bertha Leiva
    #7 Bertha Leiva on 07 Jul 08
     
    Thanks Carla, Mary and Ana María for sharing your great examples of what can be done with slideshows. I wish I had known about this feature of Diigo at the beginning of this trimester to set something up for my writing course. Del.icio.us did not work that well and links in the blog did not either. Students were so overwhelmed with work from their different subjects that they did not profit from my course as much as they had wanted (or at least that´s what they said in their self-evaluation), so they did not dedicate much time to exploring on their own. Ours was an introductory course to EFL writing and the approach was one of self-discovery as writers, readers, learners.

    I would try to see if I can make a slideshow of my students´ blog (even if that did not work out as I had expected). They concentrated so much on the wiki that when I introduced them to blogs for free writing, they preferred to stick to their wiki page and set written assignments. That was quite an interesting experience and I think the main reason why this happened is that we decided to participate in an international exchange project with some students in Nagasaki and that motivated them more than writing in their blogs. In the end I think it was too much work for them but hope they will keep building their blogs after the class is over. At least a couple said they would.

    Thanks for all the wonderful ideas and sorry I have not participated much lately. I am really exhausted. This is our last week of class and evaluations.

    Cyberhugs, Berta
  • Carla Arena
    #8 Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Dear Berta,

    I have the same feeling...I wish I had known about Diigo and Webslides before I had taught the Listening Plus online course, but it's never too late, and I'll surely see how it can be used in a near future with my online students.

    Thanks for sharing your experience with your course. I never gave you feedback, and I wanted to say that I browsed through it some time ago and just loved the Webheaddy approach to it, open with lots of interesting tasks meant to encourage students to find their way and you as a guide. Wonderful job, and I'll surely take a look at it again to see your students' production. Interesting to see that they wanted to stick to the wiki because of their international collaboration. Maybe because they were more comfortable with it?

    Well, you could use the webslides to showcase to colleagues your students' work, for sure, even adding some music or your own voice telling more about the project.

    Hope to see you soon!

    Carla

    Berta Leiva wrote:
    > Thanks Carla, Mary and Ana María for sharing your great examples of what can be done with slideshows. I wish I had known about this feature of Diigo at the beginning of this trimester to set something up for my writing course. Del.icio.us did not work that well and links in the blog did not either. Students were so overwhelmed with work from their different subjects that they did not profit from my course as much as they had wanted (or at least that´s what they said in their self-evaluation), so they did not dedicate much time to exploring on their own. Ours was an introductory course to EFL writing and the approach was one of self-discovery as writers, readers, learners.
    >
    > I would try to see if I can make a slideshow of my students´ blog (even if that did not work out as I had expected). They concentrated so much on the wiki that when I introduced them to blogs for free writing, they preferred to stick to their wiki page and set written assignments. That was quite an interesting experience and I think the main reason why this happened is that we decided to participate in an international exchange project with some students in Nagasaki and that motivated them more than writing in their blogs. In the end I think it was too much work for them but hope they will keep building their blogs after the class is over. At least a couple said they would.
    >
    > Thanks for all the wonderful ideas and sorry I have not participated much lately. I am really exhausted. This is our last week of class and evaluations.
    >
    > Cyberhugs, Berta

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