Monday, April 6, 2009

Diigo Webslides

I am presenting at the VEMA Spring Regional York Conference this week and am playing around with Diigo Webslides as a way of sharing the links for my presentation.




Problems so far:
  • I'm not thrilled about the fact that everything is a cached version of the website. I am having trouble adding any Google applications to the slideshow -- they all show some message about the website timing out.
  • I wish there were an easier way to rearrange the slides than going back into your Diigo list and clicking "move to top" or "move up." Drag and drop, please!
  • YouTube video will not display.
I feel confident that the capability exists to create the tool I want, but I have yet to find it! I tried Flowgram and loved the set-up and options, but found it slow and unreliable. I also tried creating a stack in SearchMe, but could not find a way to drag and drop to rearrange slides had trouble finding the itty bitty button that lets you change the slide number order. I still think drag-and-drop functionality would be useful, too!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Lost Generation Video

LinkMy principal sent me this awesome video YouTube video posted by metroamv. It placed second in the AARP U@50 video contest. It is a very powerful message, but also opens up all kinds of ideas for writing!


Wednesday, March 4, 2009

No Future Left Behind

"This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project:

http://netgened.wikispaces.com

When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them."


Sunday, March 1, 2009

Check Out These Links -- Diigo 3/1/09


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