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Utterz - Your Recent Utters - 1 views

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  • Carla Arena on 13 Jul 08
     
    Seems a promising tool for mobile blogging.
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TrainingShare.com - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 13 Jul 08
     
    Bonk is really into e-learning through social media. I'd need a life to explore his resources, but let's get started. He'll lead a discussion this month on SCOPE.
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
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Middle School and High School Collaboration Rubric - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    Paul, yes. you need to ask permission as it is copyrighted. Info on the bottom of the page.
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Mixbook | The Phantom of the Opera - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    This is an example on how mixbook was used in Erika Cruvinel's class. Everybody read the book, they made a summary, drew and added them to MixBook.
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Reading Treasures in the Language Classroom Show at The Journey - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    João, We talked about MixBook last year duing a webcast about reading treasures you might want to check here http://explorations.bloxi.jp/a/reading-treasures-in-the-language-classroom-show/
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Live Blogging with Google Docs at The Journey - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    Great idea to use during live events. This year, during the TESOL conference, I blogged live by using the iPhone and writing on a post as I watched the presentation. Some friends said that the profited from it as they couldn't be there and I was sharing at the exact moment things were happening. Would love to hear from you if you try it any time soon.
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Voicethread 4 Education » home - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    wonderful wiki sharing voicethread examples around the globe.
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bit.ly, a simple small url service - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    Just loved the fact that you can drag bitly to your browser toolbar.
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Web 1.0 x Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    Interesting article. Worth reading it. In fact, First Monday is an excellent online publication site.
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How could you incorporate Diigo into your classroom/session setting in a pegagogically ... - 0 views

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  • I created a list to one of my courses where my students themselves brought a video about environment : A beautiful lie.It was a really good experience because of the richness of their comments. Some of them in a good English , some of them in Spanglish.I had the idea to go on with that topic so I made a list with three pages (just an experiment) I highlighted some paragraphs and sticked notes suggesting the activity we're going to do with that.Then I got the widget and embeded into my blog.
  • Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    Wonderful idea shared by Susana Canelo.
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Picasa - Nina - Krakow-2008 - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Photos from Nina Lyulkuln's trip to Krakow.
  • Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Photos from Nina Lyulkuln's trip to Krakow. Enjoy!
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How do you envision using the Webslides feature? | Diigo - 0 views

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  • 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
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      Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
       
      Mary Hilliis Contribution
  • http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=5250so, 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.
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      Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
       
      Ana Maria's Contribution
  • 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.htmlAs 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
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      Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
       
      Carla Arena's contribution
  • Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
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How could you incorporate Diigo into your classroom/session setting in a pegagogically... - 238 views

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started by Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08 3 follow-ups, last by susana canelo on 15 Jul 08
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    #1 Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    * Think of a class you taught or are planning to teach, or a teacher training workshop you are presenting . How could you incorporate a Diigo feature to encourage students/educators to be teleplanters?

    * Add your lesson plan idea to our Discussion Forum.
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    #3 Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Dear Nelba,

    This is exactly what I used to do at my school when I was in Brazil. I don't want to throw my ideas here because I really want to see what everybody has to say, but do you envision creating, for example, a group for your school in Diigo and showing educators how to bookmark and share stuff with each other through the group? For the past weeks, I've been amazed how much I've been learning from our the LearningwithComputers group bookmarks. Every day there's a treasure. So, I've been thinking about ways to disseminate this concept of sharing in the read/write web and thought that Diigo would be a good start for reluctant teachers as they can easily receive updates by mail and we could start by sending very relevant links and encouraging, at least, some to share. What do you think?

    Nelba Quintana wrote:
    > @Carla
    > Very good question. I am in charge of the virtual environment at the school where I work. I am in charge of the website content and give advice to my colleagues on ICT matters. Actually, I am supposed to teach my colleages and students how to bookmark so this discussion will be very enriching to me.
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    #5 Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    Wow, Susana, I just loved your idea of tweaking two features in one for students. In fact, you used three features, creating a list, adding highlight and sticky notes, and using the Webslides. Fantastic! I loved the way you guided and "talked" to students in the sticky notes. There are no limits to creativity, are there?

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea!


    susana canelo wrote:

    >
    > I created a list to one of my courses where my students themselves brought a video about environment : A beautiful lie.
    > It was a really good experience because of the richness of their comments. Some of them in a good English , some of them in Spanglish.
    >
    > I had the idea to go on with that topic so I made a list with three pages (just an experiment) I highlighted some paragraphs and sticked notes suggesting the activity we're going to do with that.
    > Then I got the widget and embeded into my blog.
    >
    > I couldn't believe it. I really like it and I think it's going to be visually appealling to my students.
    >
    > Take a look at it:: http://endelvallesi.blogspot.com/
    >
    > I'd prefer the bigger option, but we can't see it complete because of Blog's layout. I resized it .
    >
    > A hug
    > Susana
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    #7 Carla Arena on 13 Jul 08
     
    Hi, Teadira.

    I think you're right. The Forum here has a great potential for teacher training because then they'll realize it's not only the Forum that they could profit from. Also, if you could link the Forum discussion with a resource that you bookmarked and shared some annotations with the group, even richer!

    If you use it, let us know how it went.

    Beijos,
    Carla


    Teadira Pérez wrote:
    > Hello Carla:
    >
    > Thanks for sharing with us all your excellent ideas about integrating diigo into our classrooms and for starting a new thread in this discussion.
    >
    > I usually run workshops to train teachers in the use of some Web 2.0 tools. I have recently run two workshops about blogs and I incorporated a section called Forum. I think diigo could help me create a better space for discussion when running workshops http://blogsxxviiendil.wordpress.com/foro/ and to encourage participants to socialise http://blogsxxviiendil.wordpress.com/e-cafe/.
    >     >
    > What do you think?
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Teadira
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adVancEducation: Trial by Twitter - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08
     
    Very informative article Vance wrote about Twitter.
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