The Classroom

A good friend of mine, Randy Lyseng, has been telling people of the tremendous power and educational value that can be gained from social bookmarking in the classroom. His personal favourite is Diigo.

My preference is a social bookmarking tool called http://diigo.com. With diigo, you can highlight, add stick notes and make your comments private or public. (Randy Lyseng, Lyseng Tech: Social Bookmarking, November 2006)

After listening to Randy praise Diigo at every opportunity, I finally started playing with the site (and corresponding program, more on that in a bit) this summer (I know Randy – I’m slow to catch on…) Read the rest of this entry »

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Have you ever tried to teach children in grades K-3 Mircosoft Word? Not just keyboarding or story writing, but actually have them use Word. To do so you need the patiatice of a saint, and a BIG bottle of aspirin on hand. You could use other programs like storybook weaver and kids works to teach basic word processing skills, but this can lead to other problems: Read the rest of this entry »