Several of you mentioned Powerpoint. I rather disliked it at first, whether the MS stuff or OpenOffice equivalent (I have a Mac and don't use MS programs on it). Too one-way for my way of teaching. So instead of making slides, I'd make html pages and would upload them in separate tabs of Firefox which I could play back and forth on as if they were piano keys.

The headmaster of a school were I was doing a workshop for the PTA exclaimed: "What! you are NOT using POWERPOINT???" when he saw me setting this up before the participants arrived. Oh well, afterwards he recognized it worked too ;-)

Yet now that platforms like slideshare.net and myPlick.com let you synchronize an audio file with a slide presentation, I'm having second thoughts about the latter: not for teaching in presence, but to prepare learning materials students can use when they want. It used to require expensive software like Adobe Breeze. Now you can do that for free.

And it would be great for exercising listening comprehension, for instance. You could have the more advanced students doing the "captioning" of an original audio document on slides they could work on together at Google Docs, and then sync them with the audio. Then less advanced students could use the captioned version at first, then listen just to the audio.

I.e. if the school filter doesn't block these Web apps - which unfortunately is all too often the case...

Otherwise, like Señora Knipp, I love Audacity - also because the "labels" of Audacity are great to transcribe a too fast or muddled audio recording, because you can tweak the audio to make it clearer AND write what it says in the same window.

Hi Isabelle and All

Isabelle, the pre-set bookmarks that appear when one is sharing a bookmark with this group are great help, thanks. But how did you create them, please? Is it a feature in the admin interface of the group owner? It would be great to have something similar at other Diigo groups

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Best

Claude

Thanks, Deb: great program though being in Switzerland, I couldn't possibly attend - so I've added it to this group's bookmarks ;-)