* 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.

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:

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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.
>
> 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

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

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
> 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

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