How's it going, Ana Maria? Have you used Posterous? How do you like it?

I've been changing the way I made my presentations. You should consider it. Fun to learn a new skill and improve the way we show what we think. Present to inspire!

So, how could we organize our tagging system after this week's discussion? Give some practical hints here. I'll start with: - try to keep a single word tag - add as many tags as you can think of - think of individual uses of the tags you're using, as well as the collective needs of easy retrieval of resources - tag, tag, tag - pay attention to mispelled words - use the groups' recommended tags in addition to the ones you've already used -

Thanks, Joao, for sharing this one more resource Sue shares with us.

Thanks Gladys and Paul for sharin these photo manipulation sites. We all need them nowadays. I must confess I'm totally in love with Flickr together with Picnik . It gives lots of editing options, including adding text, special effects, etc and when I'm done, it saves directly to my Flickr account. Lots of fun and very useful to create tutorials, for example.

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.

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
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> http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=5250
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> 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.
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> Well, I´m still thinking of the potential of webslides.
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> anamaria

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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cyberhugs, Berta

Thanks, Paul, for bookmarking this site. Interesting reading that points out to what we've been experiencing, the strengths and weakenesses of folksonomies. If we learn about them, we can try to minimize a bit ambiguity problems in tagging, though they will always be there!

Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning

This is specifically related to tagging and categorizing on our blog posts. However, very pertinent to our discussion in the learningwithcomputers group and based on Jennifer's questions.

Hi, guys. I've just posted our second week on our wiki, though we're still on week 1. Just for the ones who like to play around during the weekend. Thanks for the wonderful contribution on week 1! This is truly a social bookmarking experience. Let's keep digging Diigo. Carla and Susana.

A wonderful site for visual literacy. It gives teachers lots of practical tips on how to use visual literacy in the classroom and the photos archives with historical background and questions are great. Though it is meant for American schools, lost of interesting resources and ideas.

Dear all, I'd like to invite you to take part in this wonderful project called Web2.0Wednesday . Join us! Fun, enriching, connected. This is my first production based on the task proposed for this Wednesday. How would you define the Web2.0 in one minute?