mashing it up in the classroom

MASHING IT UP IN THE CLASSROOM

3 Tools for Your Classroom

About Me

Lee-Anne Patterson Learning Technology Coordinator

West Island School, Hong Kong

leeanne.patterson@wis.edu.hk Diigo – leekevp Delicious - lpatterson

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Workshop

This workshop is for beginners Look at 3 tools that I regularly use in my

classroom Social Bookmarking (Diigo) RSS Embedable Web2.0

Social Bookmarking

YouTube Video – Social Bookmarking in Plain English – Common Craft

We use Diigo for all classes

Everyone has their own account Class groups Tag Rolls WIS Geek of the Week Research groups Embedding Tag rolls in blogs, personal

homepages More effective when students have own

laptops

Making Lists

Lists – Personal but you can share the link (URL) with other people

Diigo Groups

Diigo Groups – each person (account) can create and belong to many Groups. Groups can be public or restricted to selected people.

Management of Bookmarks

Management of Bookmarks is much more sophisticated than other tools. Easy to edit bookmarks, import from other sources and push to other social bookmarking accounts

Adding Bookmarks

With one click add the bookmark to your Diigo Account, add to a list and add to a group.

Highlighting and Sticky Notes

Not only can you bookmark but you can highlight sections of a webpage, put sticky notes and annotate a webpage. These can be private, shared with a group or public to other Diigo users. (not general public)

Lets have a look

Go to www.diigo.com Create an account Look at highlighting and post-it notes Look at groups in diigo Can push bookmarks to delicious accounts

Ideas for Implementation Personal Account Groups for: classes, faculty/departments/Year

groups Lists for personal areas, topics for classes

RSS

Real Simple Syndication

What is RSS?

YouTube Video – RSS in Plain English – Common Craft

How to Use?

Finding RSS Webpages News searches on Google

Subscribing to RSS Browser based Readers Have a Page Flakes page for

storing/displaying Have a Netvibes site with tabs for

different classes and topics

Web 2.0

YouTube Flickr Bubblus Slide Slideshare Vizu Polls

Pros Free Collaborative Removing the

‘noise’

Cons Ownership Accounts Transient nature

Where can you use?

Class blog Class wiki VLE’s Nings Facebook ……anywhere you

can insert HTML code

Extra Bits n Pieces

Powerpoint YouTube Add-in YouTube Downloader App Web 2.0 Toolbox