Titan pad is very interesting - but will only record up to the first 16 people as unique colors. One way to make sure everyone is participating is to group them and watch as the conversations are color coded according to groups!
If you are going to use a screencasting software - an easy one to use is screen-cast-o-matic. It will give you an .mp4 file that can be easily uploaded to YouTube. The free version of Jing gives you a .swf file and that has to be converted before loading to YouTube. Make sure you test the software before you invest time in recording.
Most professionals who meet on a
regular basis admit to daydreaming (91%),
missing meetings (96%), or missing parts
of meetings (95%). A large percentage
(73%) said they have brought other work to
meetings and some (39%) said they have
dozed during meetings.
in the flipped faculty meeting,
teachers are given informational items to
read and view in advance.
Love this! If my students are working on something online, they constantly email links back and forth to themselves. This is such an easy way for students to share links and work together without trying to figure out group emails- it can be a lot for a 10 year old!
Classes could supplement their textbook with information from the web. Diigo could facilitate student discussions about the bookmarks. Annotations could be used to gauge student thinking.
Students can use virtual sticky notes to summarize the important points of information from the website. This activity will mimic the time-tested procedure of using note cards to summarize and organize research projects.
One common problem of student computer use in schools is access to student work from home. Not every school provides a way for students to access their school data. In such cases, if students create bookmarks at school, they will not have access fro
m other computers.
Using Diigo, students can bookmark important websites and access them from school, home, the library or any internet-connected computer. Students will always have access to this data
Creative Commons Photo courtesy of Michael Surran Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License Introduction Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.