My Diigo Links 05/23/2009

OffiSync – Enabling Collaboration
If you are looking to use Google Docs but also want the security of Microsoft Word then the Offisync Beta plugin may be worth considering. Offisync allows you to open and save your documents online in Google Docs and access them from any computer. This enables you to access your files from [...]

My Diigo Links 05/22/2009

Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

This is, I believe, the original source article for the 90% lurkers 9% and 1% contributors quote that Jason Smith used in his Innovations Showcase Keynote presentation.

90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).

9% of users contribute from time to time, [...]

Martin Westwell Innovations Showcase Update

Readers who checked out my CoverItLive post re Martin Westwell’s recent Innovations Showcase might be interested to know that Martin has kindly added his slides from this presentation to the Innovations Showcase Ning. As I have also commented the Australian Secondary Principals have a report/record of a similar 2008 presentation from Martin.

My Diigo Links 05/21/2009

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage

This fabulous pbworks wiki is a collection of links to a whole range of diverse tools and resources to manage and use in research. Though it is aimed more at higher education, many of the tools also have applicability to other sectors of education.
“Whether you need software to help you manage [...]

Anti-ageing Avatars

This post was written with tongue firmly in cheek and any offence caused to colleagues, friends, acquaintances or to those who self indentify is purely accidental .
How many of you dear readers follow the prognostications and/or misadventures of your social networking friends and colleagues without actually having met them in person? If you’re like [...]

Jason Smith at the DEECD Innovations Showcase

One of the other Keynote Addresses at the Innovations Showcase was from Jason Smith, co-founder of TeacherTube.

This is a copy of my CoveritLive record of his presentation, (the red notes are my comments).

Jason Smith Co-founder of TeacherTube
(05/15/2009)

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9:35

Jason Smith from TeacherTube is now starting his keynote

9:38

Speaking about N1H1 flu and actual email of child kissing pig. [...]

Martin Westwell at the DEECD Innovations Showcase

Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to head up to Melbourne to take in the local Victorian Department of Education’s Innovations Showcase. During the day there were a number of parallel presentations highlighting the work of numerous innovative teachers across the state. There were also a couple of keynote presentations, one of which was [...]

John’s Diigo Links 05/03/2009

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About – Annotated
Once you’ve begun working with YouTube for some time you might like to play with the movies that are available. This list from the makeuseof site is a collection of ten interesting hacks associated with YouTube movies. Here you can;

learn how to view and embed high [...]