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