Links for the Day 03/29/2008

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I’m testing the feature that lets me post annotations and links from diigo to here. I know that many of you are getting sick of hearing of this little tool and if you’re a beginner, perhaps you should wait, however, for me, I’m finding it useful.

Forgive me as I learn to work through the kinks here. It may be bumpy at first, but this gives me a more robust way to share links — many of you have e-mailed me that you like my link goodness best! This way it can become part of my blog… I’m still not sure I want it here, and yet there are STILL people who go to the site directly and don’t understand RSS.


FeedFlare™ Catalog

tags: blogging, twitter

These are the cool feedflares that you can add in addition to those already used in Feedflare — for bloggers using Feedburner to RSS things. There is a new one called twit this.

Streamline It Part I: Diigo or Bust : Metanoia

tags: diigo, edu_newapp, techintegrator

Ryan Bretag says, “Okay, here it is. I’m dumping Zotero, Delicious, and Google Notebook for Diigo. Blasphemy to some, I know, but I can basically get all I need in one: “

This chart by Ryan Bretag summarizes what the sites can do. He left off a few but this is great.

A Collection on “Internet Safety Information” (cyberbullying,cybersafety,internetsafety) | Diigo

tags: administrator, all_teachers, cyberbullying, digital_citizenship, digitalcitizenship, internetsafety, techintegrator

A great list that I came across from the educators group on Diigo– this is a collection of internet safety information — great resources. This is an excellent tool.

Top News – Analysis: How multimedia can improve learning

tags: all_teachers, bestpractices, curriculum

An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal learning–using many modes and strategies that cater to individual learners’ needs and capacities–is more effective than traditional, unimodal learning, which uses a single mode or strategy.

My Membership – Group Widget | Diigo Groups

tags: diigo, edu_newapp

Group widget for the Educators Diigo Group

Group Tag Dictionary

tags: all_teachers, diigo, edu_newapp

This is the current tag dictionary — we really only get 17 that show up and I had to truncate the names — but if you join the group and send pages to the group when you bookmark these tags will come up.

educators | Diigo Group

tags: all_teachers

This will be my first “official” bookmark to the educators group on diigo. I’m sending it to the group to make use of the standard tagging dictionary I’ve set up to use with this group — this will help us share at a further level.

Keeping students cybersafe! « On an e-journey with generation Y

tags: connectingpeople, digital_citizenship, education, hz08, hzmeta, internetsafety

Some good best practices from a teacher on keeping students cybersafe. I like this practical list and think it should be shared. It is important that we teach students about how to be safe online and good digital citizens.

**TIP: Click the annotated link below**

This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Sti | Diigo Message System Annotated

tags: @education_trends, collectiveintelligence, collectiveknowledge, connectingpeople, coolcatteacher, diigo, education, hz08, hzmeta, twitter, virtualcollab

This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious — I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom

tags: collectiveknowledge, connectingpeople, education, flatclassroom, hz08, hzmeta, virtualcollab

I wrote this post to outline the progression I take my classes through to get them to the state where they may collaborate directly with students in another country. I put a lot of time and thought into the progression of collaborative skills.

Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness

tags: collectiveintelligence, collectiveknowledge, connectingpeople, govt_business, hz08, hzmeta, usercontent, virtualcollab, wiki, wikinomics

This incredible chart says it all about the importance of wiki collaboration. This should also be a message to bloated bureaucracies looking to squeeze that last bit of efficiency out of already overworked staff. This is an important chart for horizon project students to include, I believe.

Blackboard claims initially denied

tags: education

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We are studying the document, found here, but in short, the PTO has rejected all 44 of Blackboard’s claims.

The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere at dougbelshaw.com

tags: blogging, edublogger, education, researcher_thoughtleader

Doug Belshaw’s ruminations on the edublogosphere and how it is changing. I’m going to be thinking on this one.

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and telling your friends about the work we do here! - Vicki

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3 comments

Kristin Hokanson March 29, 2008 - 6:34 pm

Vicki–
Are these your links coming in from Diigo? I had mine going to a “draft” that I would clean up and I didn’t like how they looked how did you get your list to look so clean and nice

Vicki A. Davis March 29, 2008 - 6:37 pm

Kristin — this is ONE post that is going to be the links of the day — this is JUST links.

I have another set of annotations that are tagged “coolcatteacher” that I’ve set to post for me to “clean up” — I’d like to automate that one tool.

I did it directly — and I went back and changed a few things, but thus far, I like it.

McTeach March 31, 2008 - 5:51 am

Hi Vicki – I just wanted to thank you for including my first List on your blog. Since you put it out there, quite a few people have saved the List. That’s awesome! I just created a Poetry Links list (having collected a number of poetry links from my Watchlist), and the entire time I was playing all I could think was “Diigo is just so cool!!”

One thought to investigate: I’ve added some links to my Internet Safety List and I’m wondering how that works for someone who’s already saved the list. Are they notified of changes? (that would be cool) or do I just hope they discover the additions when next they click on the link? Will have to do some investigating.

Thanks again!
Karen

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