My presentation from 21C Learning HK Conference September 17-19 2009

1. Mashing it up in the Classroom 3 Tools for Your Classroom

2. About Me Lee-Anne Patterson Learning Technology CoordinatorWest Island School, Hong Kong leeanne.patterson@wis.edu.hk Diigo – leekevp Delicious - lpatterson lpatterson

3. Workshop This workshop is for beginners Look at 3 tools that I regularly use in my classroom Social Bookmarking (Diigo) RSS Embedable Web2.0

4. Social Bookmarking YouTube Video – Social Bookmarking in Plain English – Common Craft

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. RSS Real Simple Syndication

13. What is RSS? YouTube Video – RSS in Plain English – Common Craft

14. How to Use? Finding RSS Webpages News searches on Google Subscribing to RSS Browser based Readers Have a Page Flakespage for storing/displaying Have a Netvibes site with tabs for different classes and topics

15. Web 2.0 YouTube Flickr Bubblus Slide Slideshare Vizu Polls Pros Free Collaborative Removing the ‘noise’ Cons Ownership Accounts Transient nature

16. Where can you use? Class blog Class wiki VLE’s Nings Facebook ……anywhere you can insert HTML code

17. Extra Bits n Pieces Powerpoint YouTube Add-in YouTube Downloader App Web 2.0 Toolbox