NECC and new Macs

My friends just arrived at the hotel and they all have new MacBooks. I am going to show them how to put a picture into a blog after taking it with the camera on the computer.

Diigo

I am in a session on Diigo. The last thing I posted cam directly from Diigo. My mind is sort of boggled with all of the things that you can do with Diigo. The person who created Diigo is here in this session and other people who have used it are talking about it. You can create a group that can specifically use it for training.

Some people use it in their classrooms for kids to search and annotate what they found.

Now the creator of Diigo is showing us a few things!
Possible to filter bookmarks in a group by many user, so you can see

Lists-specific collections of web pages. Can make it public or private. Diigo in Education is a list that the owner created. You can drag and drop the bookmarks. Then this can be made into a web slideshow whic goes from web page to web page. You can then pull up the list and jump from page to page. The annotations are there. The user can see the annotations.

Everyone's brains are really full. We are stopping. This is the first time I have live-blogged. The pictures were actually taken live with my Mac! It was easy!

Social Bookmarking Benefits article

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  Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered - Annotated

  
  

  tags: facebook, spacebook, research

  
  

What I am doing on my birthday

It is now 1:00 pm.... How did it get to be so late??? Well, I am allowing myself time to explore while doing my email and people keep sending me things that take me off in different directions.

I just received a few messages from friends who wrote on my Super Wall in Face Book or sent me a message in My Space. Boy, do I feel old. I have set up accounts in these places, but I RARELY spend time on them. Once I log in I am not sure how to even find my Super Wall and then once I get the nice Birthday Cake from a friend how can I send her a note saying thanks? Also, now that I am here I see that I have a bunch of notes from people I know that I have not responded to. And... one of them has a video with it. So, I need to watch the video. I ended up sending the friend who sent me the cake an off-color picture by accident. I only know that because the program shows me what I sent! I don't know how to get it back and delete the picture. I guess I will just send her a note saying I didn't mean it.... but how??? And I am sort of amazed that all of these friends (it is really only three) remembered my birthday. I guess it has something to do with my profile....

It is great to have all of this time to "waste" trying to figure these things out. I feel so unstressed... but I cannot believe that it is already 1 pm!! How do kids find time for this? I guess I just used my time when I was their age on the TV instead of the computer. Instead of their heads being filled with jingles and trivia maybe something else is happening to their brains. hmmmmm

A Reminder

This is why I do what I do.




I think this movie is a MUST SEE. Thanks Dave Eggers!!
I learned about this from the Mosaic Discussion List and watched it on this blog:
http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com

If you haven't heard of Dave Eggers or 826 Valencia I highly recommend going to this link to learn about it! Amazing!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/233

ASCD adds Technology in 2009

I am a member of The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) mainly because they put out the journal Educational Leadership, which is really great.

So, I get their newsletter "Education Update". Today's edition had articles about the Annual Conference that they just had in New Orleans. Here is the quote that interested me:

"In 2009, ASCD will add a technology strand to the diverse array of informative conference sessions. This year, attendees got a taste of one way that technology is shaping educational discussions by participating in online conference coverage and commentary on Inservice, ASCD's Blog. Attendees responded enthusiastically to the 48 blog posts about the conference, generating more than 250 comments. Inservice's coverage of the event generated about five times as many page views and site visits as last year, indicating that energized participants wanted to continue the engaging discussion about reinventing their schools"

I find it really encouraging that technology is becoming widespread and transparent. You can look at the ongoing conversation at http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/annual_conference.