Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Book Video Ning!

Thanks to the discussion started on book trailers at Wesley Fryer’s Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Joyce Valenza started a Book Video Ning where members can collaborate on book trailers and more, come join and be apart of the excitement!  Thanks Joyce!

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Diigo!!! Join the Carmel Clay and Towne Meadow Groups Today!

Diigo is an awesome social bookmarking tool, in an earlier post this year I shared a PPT on this from Authorshare, I also shared 7 reasons why it trumps Del.ic.ous.  I’m excited to share Diigo!  Follow these steps to getting started:

1.  Learn About Diigo

 

DIIGO PPT

7 Reasons Diigo Trumps …

2.  Create and Account

http://www.diigo.com/index

3.  Download the toolbars at work and at home

INSTALL THE DIIGO TOOLBAR HERE!

4.  Join the Carmel Clay Schools Group and collaborate with others!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CCS GROUP!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE TME GROUP!

5. Check out the options for educators!

 Diigo Educator Accounts - create accounts for students

 

6. If you have any questions or would like some help setting things up and getting started please contact me. 

 

Book Trailers Discussed @ Moving at the Speed of Creativity…

I was happy to have helped Wesley out in his hunt for a good bedtime read for his daughter.  I pointed him also toward the book trailer site Dr Greary created.  Check out the post and comments at Wesley’s blog!

Photo Story 3 – Creekside PD

 

Higher Level Thinking and Digital Activities

Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12

Text Flow

Sites That Caught My Eye!


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Technology and the Economy

I came across this in one of my feed subscriptions today. Shows some current trends and predicts growth in the web 2.0 market terms of sheer data. I thought that it was interesting.  I will warn you, if you dare watch it, it is very dry, boring, and has some big economic vocabulary.  Slides here. 

Election Websites

Check This Out!

Diigo

Diigo is by far one of my favorite web 2.0 tools out there.  It is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to bookmark pages and share those with a group over any computer via the internet.  I have created a group for Towne Meadow.  Please take some time to join Diigo, join the Towne Meadow Elementary Group, download the toolbar and begin sharing your favorite websites and tools with the staff! Below are some tags for some sites I have been bookmarking, you will also see 25 most recently added bookmarks on the right side of my blog.