Making Connections #6 - 5/15/07

We connected with a very small group tonight, but that did not stop us from sharing some great sites.  During the past week we had 4^th graders experimenting with diigo [6] and 3^rd graders creating internet safety comics with Comic Maker [7].

Here are a few examples:

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.html?comix_id=3915800 [8]

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.html?comix_id=16791540 [9]

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.html?comix_id=9247078 [10]

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.html?comix_id=569382126 [11]

 

We are pleased to report that Maggie Tsai, co-founder of diigo has agreed to meet us here next week to give us a tour of diigo and field our questions. 

Hi Cathy,

Thanks for your email.  Glad to hear Diigo is being discovered by educators.  Thought you might be interested to know:  Diigo was founded by a former EECS professor at UC Berkeley.  Obviously, we are quite interested in seeing Diigo being made into good use, and especially in the educational community :)……..

Best,

Maggie Tsai
co-founder
www.diigo.com [6]

 

We will look forward to Maggie’s visit. 

A few other links we referenced:

http://www.reading.org/ [12]   International Reading Association

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/ [13]

I will encourage folks to take advantage of the WebHeads in Action [14] Online Convergence beginning Friday May 18th.

iPods in school - http://www.dare.k12.nc.us/moxie/schools/DEF-iPod-grant-NHES.shtml [15]